- City:
- Mobile, AL
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation, Tennis Courts
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Completed:
- 1937
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Works Progress Administration built tennis courts in Lyons Park in Mobile. The park is still in service today under the name Lyons Park Tennis Center.
Source notes
Lyons Park Tennis Center: (https://www.mobile.org/listings/Lyons-Park-Tennis-Center/739/), accessed November 14, 2017.
The WPA Guide to Alabama: The Camellia State By Federal Writers' Project: (https://books.google.com/books?id=EE3pCAAAQBAJ&lpg=PT232&ots=imnGrAfz2o&dq=lyons%20park%20mobile%20al%20WPA&pg=PT232#v=onepage&q=lyons%20park%20mobile%20al%20WPA&f=false), accessed November 14, 2017.
National Archives Record Group 69-N
Site originally submitted by Brent McKee on November 14, 2017.
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