- State:
- MS
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Gymnasiums
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1936
- Completed:
- 1936
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- Unknown
Description
Details were completed in August 1936 for construction of a modern gymnasium for the Kingston High School in Adams County. The building was concrete blocks and 70 feet x 120 feet, constructed by the Works Progress Administration. Kingston was a rural community in the Natchez vicinity, and “badly in need of gymnasiums” (Gymnasium work, 1936, p. 2). The new gymnasium constructed by a WPA crew was “strictly modern and up-to-date” (Gymnasium work, p. 2). The school burned October 2016 and no buildings are extant.
Source notes
Gym Work to Begin. (Aug 3, 1936). Clarion-Ledger, p. 7.
Gymnasium Work Shows Progress. (Aug 11, 1936). Natchez Democrat, p. 2.
School Openings Slated in Adams. (Aug 30, 1936). Clarion-Ledger, p. 2.
Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on July 5, 2020.
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