- City:
- Mound City, IL
- Site Type:
- Civic Facilities, Cemeteries
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Civil Works Administration (CWA)
Description
Mound City National Cemetery was improved as part of Federal Project F-87 by the federal Civil Works Administration (CWA). The work done “included the resetting, realigning and cleaning of headstones … as well as the filling-in of sunken graves.”
Source notes
"Report of the Federal Civil Works Administration for Illinois," Mar. 31, 1934. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015074882567;view=1up;seq=82 (page 79)Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 22, 2015.
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