- City:
- Oxford, MS
- Site Type:
- Schools, Education and Health
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding
- Started:
- 1938
- Completed:
- 1939
- Designer:
- James T. Canizaro
- Contractor:
- Flint and Jordan Construction
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
PWA Docket No. Miss. 1245-F approved construction of a school building in the city of Oxford to house Oxford’s “Negro Elementary and High School.” The building is no longer extant.
Source notes
Meeting Minutes, Oxford Board of Aldermen. Book 10, including July 5, 1938, August 19, 1938, and October 21, 1938. Retrieved from https://www.oxfordms.net/documents/boards/boa/minutebooks/Book10.pdf.
Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Historic Resources Inventory Database.
Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on February 7, 2014.
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