Lake Halbert Dam Repairs – Corsicana TX

City:
Corsicana, TX

Site Type:
Infrastructure and Utilities, Dams

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

Completed:
1936

Description

The Works Progress Administration rebuilt the dam impounding Lake Halbert, near Corsicana, Texas, in a project completed in 1936. The work involved “extensive rock riprapping.”

Source notes

Corsicana Daily Sun, Aug. 12, 1936 (pg. 1): https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/12939655/

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on May 24, 2022.

Location Info


Lake Halbert
Corsicana, TX

Coordinates: 32.077395, -96.407395

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