- City:
- Greenville, MS
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation, Education and Health, Athletic Courts and Fields
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Completed:
- 1936
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Marked:
- Unknown
Description
The city of Greenville sponsored the Works Progress Administration project to improve the high school athletic field. The field was graded and bleachers added with a capacity to seat 2,000. The cost of the project was $2,122 and employed fifteen men. The field is not extant.
Source notes
Alliston OK's work here awaiting federal grant. (August 18, 1935). Clarion-Ledger, p. 9.
Hornet Field helped. (June 8, 1936). Clarion-Ledger, p. 1.
Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on June 16, 2020.
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