- City:
- Charlestown, IN
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Libraries
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
Description
“The Public Library in Charlestown, Indiana was constructed out of work shanties by Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers in the early days of the Charlestown boom and is staffed by Works Progress Administration librarians. It has between three thousand and four thousand books and there is a demand for more technical texts on chemistry, steam fitting, mechanical drawing, mathematics and carpentry.”
The exact location of the former library is unknown to Living New Deal.
Source notes
https://research.archives.gov/id/518271Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on September 23, 2016.
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