- City:
- Hurricane, UT
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Started:
- 1935
- Completed:
- 1936
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
“A two-story red brick high school building was built during the Great Depression with help from the federal government’s Works Progress Administration. The building was completed and the school opened just after Thanksgiving in 1936.” The building was demolished in 2004.
Source notes
Heritage Utah: (https://heritage.utah.gov/apps/history/markers/detailed_results.php?markerid=1664), accessed January 28, 2018.
Hurricane High School:(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_High_School_(Utah)), accessed January 28, 2018.
Washington County Historical Society: (https://wchsutah.org/schools/hurricane-high.php), accessed January 28, 2018.
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on November 23, 2016.
Additional contributions by Brent McKee.
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