- City:
- Knox City, TX
- Site Type:
- Schools, Education and Health
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works
- Started:
- 1936
- Completed:
- 1937
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
One story beige brick building. Plaque:
KNOX CITY GRAMMAR SCHOOL
FEDERAL EMERGENCY ADMINISTRATION OF PUBLIC WORKS
PROJECT NO. 1339-R
“S.W.T.T.C. Project is Given Approval
Fort Worth March 10
Plans and specifications on five PWA projects were approved Tuesday in state PWA offices, and bid opening dates are Knox School, March 30…..”
“Dr. J.D. Sandefer, president of Hardin-Simmons University, was the principal speaker at the dedication program for the new Knox City grammar school gymnasium and auditorium tonight.”
Source notes
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/37643872/knox_city_school/ (Austin American 3/11/1936, accessed November 2019.)
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/37666783/knox_city_grammar_school_dedication/ (Abilene Reporter-News 2/27/1937, accessed November 2019.)
Site originally submitted by Eveline Evans on November 8, 2019.
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