- City:
- Fernwood, MS
- Site Type:
- Gymnasiums, Education and Health, Parks and Recreation, Swimming Pools, Athletic Courts and Fields
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works
- Started:
- 1936
- Completed:
- 1937
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Public Works Administration (project W1154) constructed the gymnasium, athletic field, and swimming pool for the Fernwood school. The project was approved on 11/14/1935 with a loan of $16,000 and grant of $13,090. Bids were advertised in November for the gymnasium construction, swimming pool and bath house, “to be constructed under the old PWA plan” (p.1). Contract was awarded 12/16/1935 and construction began 1/22/1936. The project was completed 9/25/1937.
Source notes
Report No. 5, Status of Completed Non-Federal Allotted Projects, Region No. 3, Mississippi. (January 3, 1940). Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works Projects Division, p. 105.
More state PWA work is okehed: Final approval is given to twelve more construction jobs. (Nov. 25, 1935). Clarion-Ledger.
Advertisement of Bids. (Nov. 28, 1935). Enterprise-Journal, p. 2.
$30,000 will be spent improving Fernwood school. (Dec. 17, 1935). Semi-Weekly Journal, p. 4.
Fernwood school new gymnasium plans completed. (Feb. 5, 1936). Enterprise-Journal, p. 1.
Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on August 6, 2019.
Site Details
| Federal Cost |
|---|
| $13,090.00 |
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