- City:
- Brownstown, IN
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Sanitation and Water Disposal
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
This Works Progress Administration outhouse was relocated to the county historical society property. It was built in a shop, moved to the original site, and installed by WPA. WPA programs like the Indiana Community Sanitation Program directly affected an astounding number of people. WPA built 125,791 outhouses for the state of Indiana (paying $4 million in wages) and more than 2 million nationwide.
Source notes
https://www.fths.org/wpa-outhouses-humble-but-historic/
https://footnote.wordpress.ncsu.edu/2020/07/02/the-sanitary-privy-07-03-2020/
Site originally submitted by Doug Logan on April 25, 2021.
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