- City:
- Plymouth, MA
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding
- Started:
- 1935
- Completed:
- 1937
Description
Nathaniel Morton Elementary School in Plymouth, Massachusetts was constructed as the town’s high school, part of a New Deal project. The federal Public Works Administration (P.W.A.) supplied a sizable grant of $138,150 for the project, whose total cost was $327,666. Construction began at the end of Dec. 1935 and was completed Jan. 1937. The building bears a massive ‘cornerstone’ atop the main entrance that reads 1936.
P.W.A. Docket No. MA W1050
Source notes
National Archives: Record Group 135: Public Works Administration; Projects Control Division; Entry 52: Indices to Non-Federal Projects; Report No. 5: Status of All Completed Non-Federal Allotted Projects, page 11.Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 9, 2017.
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Susan Morton Watson
Nathaniel is the son of George Morton who arrived Plymouth in 1623 on the ship Anne!
Nathaniel wrote a history of Plymouth colony called
New England’s Memorial