- City:
- Ferguson, MO
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Description
“With 400 students that transferred from John M. Vogt HIgh School, Ferguson High School opened in 1939. It was built by the Ferguson Public School District on the (rumored to be haunted) January Estate; which had also been used as the city dump and was known as Blizzard Hill. Located at 701 January Avenue, the school was constructed with WPA, Works Progress Administration, financial assistance. In the basement of the school was a firing range for target practice by students belonging to the school’s NRA Club. 1952 saw the merger of the Ferguson Public School District and the Florissant School District. Ferguson High School’s last graduating class was in 1962; with the school becoming Ferguson Junior High; now Ferguson Middle School.”
Source notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCluer_High_SchoolSite originally submitted by Charles Swaney on April 3, 2013.
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