Garfield Playground – Washington DC

State:
WASHINGTON-DC

Site Type:
Playgrounds, Parks and Recreation

New Deal Agencies:
Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), Work Relief Programs

Started:
1933

Completed:
1934

Quality of Information:
Very Good

Site Survival:
Unknown

Description

The Federal Emergency Relief Administration and the Civil Works Administration funded and constructed improvements at the Garfield Playground in Washington DC, between, 1933-1934. “Playing area increased by relocation of hedges, graded, relocation of equipment.”

Source notes

Report of the Government of the District of Columbia, For the Year Ended June 30, 1934, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1935, p. 86.

Site originally submitted by Brent McKee on August 5, 2020.

Location Info


Garfield Playground
Washington, DC

Location notes: General location marker.

Coordinates: 38.88152, -77.00375

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One comment on “Garfield Playground – Washington DC

  1. My father was discharged from Camp Garfield.
    Is this what they called my fathers camp was called?
    He took a lot of pictures which I have. My father passed away in the eighties. I loved his stories about being in the CCC. I became a soil scientist and soil conservationist.
    Thanks to his stories.

    Thanks to the CCC.

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One comment on “Garfield Playground – Washington DC

  1. My father was discharged from Camp Garfield.
    Is this what they called my fathers camp was called?
    He took a lot of pictures which I have. My father passed away in the eighties. I loved his stories about being in the CCC. I became a soil scientist and soil conservationist.
    Thanks to his stories.

    Thanks to the CCC.

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