Kings County Fairgrounds Improvements – Hanford CA

City:
Hanford, CA

Site Type:
Parks and Recreation, Fairgrounds

New Deal Agencies:
Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Quality of Information:
Minimal

Marked:
No

Site Survival:
Extant

Description

Kings County Fairgrounds in Hanford received extensive improvements from Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers in the 1930s.  What exactly was done and what remains of the work is unknown.  Photos are of the present fairgrounds.

Source notes

Scrapbooks of clippings related to WPA projects in Fresno, Kern, King, Madera, and Tulare Counties. Gift of Mrs. David T. Holmes, Vacaville, 1962 to California State Library in Sacramento.

Site originally submitted by Gray Brechin on July 24, 2011.

Location Info


810 S. Tenth Ave.
Hanford, CA 93230
Kings County

Coordinates: 36.317, -119.63

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