Project type: Education and Health, Infrastructure and Utilities, Sanitation and water disposal, Schools
New Deal Agencies: Public Works Administration (PWA)
Site Survival: No Longer Extant
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Description
“The federal government’s New Deal programs, specifically the Works Progress Administration and the Public Works Administration, also played a direct role in Rock Hill’s economic recovery. … PWA funds coupled with local bond money, improved several Rock Hill schools. A sewer system, assembly hall, and classrooms were added to the desperately overcrowded African American high school, Emmett Scott.”
The facility was demolished in 1952.
Source notes
City of Rock Hill Historic Resources Survey Update ... August 2004 http://nationalregister.sc.gov/SurveyReports/rockhill.pdf (page 23) http://www.lat34north.com/historicmarkerssc/MarkerDetail.cfm?KeyID=46-27
Project originally submitted by Evan Kalish on September 23, 2016.
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