- City:
- Sheridan, WY
- Site Type:
- Schools, Education and Health, Parks and Recreation, Athletic Courts and Fields
- New Deal Agencies:
- Civil Works Administration (CWA), Work Relief Programs
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
The Civil Works Administration (CWA) “added a practice field newly leveled and landscaped” at the since-demolished high school in Sheridan, Wyoming in 1933/4.
The school, which was dedicated in 1926, served as the high school until 1987. It later became a junior high school and has since been demolished. The current Sheridan Junior High School occupies the site, which was on the south side of Lewis Street between Bellevue Ave. and Adair Ave.
Source notes
Building Up Wyoming: Depression-Era Federal Projects in Wyoming, 1929–1943. Michael Cassity. Prepared for the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office ... (pg. 100).
https://www.michaelcassity.org/uploads/1/2/7/7/12777320/wyodepressionerafedprojects_mpdf.pdf (accessed May 26, 2022)
https://www.shsalumni.net/Memories/Schools/SHS%20History.htm (accessed May 27, 2022)
Historic map: https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/img4/ht_icons/overlay/WY/WY_Sheridan_341349_1968_24000_geo.jpg
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on May 27, 2022.
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