- City:
- Oil Trough, AR
- Site Type:
- Gymnasiums, Education and Health
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Started:
- 1941
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
“Construct school gymnasium, including installing plumbing, heating, and electrical facilities; excavating; backfilling; and performing appurtenant and incidental work. Publicly owned property. Sponsor: Oil Trough School District #100.” WPA Project No. 265-1-63-5, $11,244, application date 7-12-41, Average Employed 38.
As best I can gather from talking with a few locals that were reachable, is that the current food bank is the former gym. The school district was dissolved in 1990, and the school was closed in 2005 with students going to either Newark or Cedar Ridge.
Source notes
WPA Job Card, Fresno Public Library, San Joaquin Valley Heritage & Genealogy Center.
Wiki.
Local source.
Site originally submitted by Andrew Laverdiere on August 2, 2018.
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