- City:
- College Station, TX
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Education and Health, Colleges and Universities, Airports
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Completed:
- 1940
Description
Several projects at the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (now Texas A&M University) were undertaken with New Deal funds.
“The biggest project undertaken using funds from the federal government was the development of an airport, supported by partial grants from the WPA. In 1940, the government bequeathed the WPA $25 million for the construction of airports. The WPA provided approximately $154,970 towards such a project on the campus of the Agricultural and Mechanical College to Texas. The airport was completed in 1941 and another $75,000 was given by the WPA to light the finished runways. The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas was one of only a few schools in the nation to own their own airport.”
“The facility in 1940 had one hangar and a turf landing strip and taxiway which were eventually paved through funding provided by the CAA, the Work Projects Administration (WPA), and Texas A&M.”
Source notes
"Building the New Deal: Federal Construction on College Campuses in 1930s Texas," by Kaitlyn Waynen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easterwood_AirportSite originally submitted by Evan Kalish on May 10, 2017.
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