- City:
- Socorro, NM
- Site Type:
- Schools, Education and Health
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
A plaque installed on the school building notes that the structure was built by the Works Progress Administration. The school name was later changed to Edward E. Torres School. It was closed in 2015 and is now used by Head Start.
Note: The author of this entry taught at Garfield School from 1968 to 1971.
Source notes
WPA plaque on the building.
Site originally submitted by Kathleen Bush Kenslow on November 22, 2017.
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