Project type: Civic Facilities, Public Housing
Agency: US Housing Authority (USHA)
Started: 1939
Completed: 1941
Quality of Information: Good
Site Survival: Extant
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Description
Highway Village was built as white public housing. Construction began in December 1939 and was completed January 1941 using United States Housing Authority funding. The triplex units are still extant.
Source notes
Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Historic Resources Inventory. Retrieved from http://www.apps.mdah.ms.gov/Public/prop.aspx?id=17925&view=facts&y=1108
Enterprise-Journal. March 5, 1940, p. 9.
Project originally submitted by Susan Allen on November 4, 2018.
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