Preservation work
Project type: Archaeology and History, Historical Restoration
New Deal Agencies: Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Started: 1937
Completed: 1938
Contractors: J. D. Tyner, Supervising Engineer
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Description
Using the original plans, 800 men working for the WPA reconstructed the limestone Fort Negley at a cost of $84,000. It reopened to the public in 1938.
Source notes
Fort Negley's History. Retrieved from http://www.nashville.gov/Parks-and-Recreation/Historic-Sites/Fort-Negley/History.aspx Van West, C. (2001). Tennessee’s New Deal Landscape: A Guidebook. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. WPA Federal Writers Project. (1939). Tennessee: A Guide to the State. New York: Viking Press. Source of information: (1) National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the Work Projects Administration, Information Service, Primary File, 1936-42, Box 15, Folder 290-B. Fort Negley History, City of Nashville website
Project originally submitted by Susan Allen & Brian Holler on December 17, 2014.
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