- City:
- Meridian, MS
- Site Type:
- Civic Facilities, Public Housing
- New Deal Agencies:
- Housing Programs, US Housing Authority (USHA)
- Started:
- 1939
- Completed:
- 1941
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Site Survival:
- Extant
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 https://www.apps.mdah.ms.gov/Public/prop.aspx?id=17925&view=facts&y=1108
Enterprise-Journal. March 5, 1940, p. 9.
Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on November 4, 2018.
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