- City:
- Jackson, MS
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Airports
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Completed:
- 1936
- Designers:
- Emmett J. Hull, Eugene Drummond
- Contractor:
- M. T. Reed Construction
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The terminal building was constructed in 1936 for the Jackson Municipal Airport (then called Davis Field). The airport continued to expand with new runways and other amenities funded by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) until 1941, including use of the field for pilot training during WWII. The terminal building is currently undergoing extensive restoration.
Source notes
"Hawkins Field (Old Jackson Municipal Airport." Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Historic Resources Inventory Fact Sheet. Retrieved from https://www.apps.mdah.ms.gov/Public/prop.aspx?id=39925&view=facts&y=1112 Biloxi Daily Herald, April 22, 1937, p. 1. Biloxi Daily Herald, January 24, 1941, p. 8.Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on July 22, 2015.
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