- State:
- MS
- Site Type:
- Lakes and Ponds, Parks and Recreation
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1936
- Completed:
- 1936
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Marked:
- Unknown
- Site Survival:
- Unknown
Description
A chain of lakes for the hill counties of Mississippi was proposed in 1936 by Si Corley, director of conservation of the State Game and Fish commission. Funds from the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in concert with the sponsorship of the Game and Fish commission began the construction of a series of lakes adjacent to cities in the hill counties including a small artificial lake near Gitano. Exact location is unknown.
Source notes
Chain of Lakes Will Be Built: Hill Counties of State To Be Supplied with Fishing Places. (July 31, 1936. The Yazoo Herald, p. 2.
Build Small Lake. (Nov 16, 1936). Clarion-Ledger, p. 10.
Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on July 7, 2020.
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