- City:
- Laurel, MS
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1940
- Completed:
- 1940
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- Unknown
Description
Works Progress Administration (WPA) funds in the amount of $13,676 were approved for the Laurel Municipal school district to improve buildings, grounds and facilities at the George S. Gardiner High School and Kingston School. The work at Gardiner was for grounds improvements and reconditioning of the track and football practice areas for the 1922 school.
Source notes
Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Historic Resources Inventory, Laurel, (Old) George S. Gardiner High School. Retrieved July 15, 2020 from https://www.apps.mdah.ms.gov/Public/rpt.aspx?rpt=publicPropSearch&Name=&StreetNo=&StreetName=&City=Laurel&County=Any
Laurel School Project Okehed. (Jan 29, 1940). Clarion-Ledger, p. 3.
Four State WPA Jobs Approved. (Jan 31, 1940). Clarion-Ledger, p. 2.
Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on July 16, 2020.
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