Mound City National Cemetery Improvements – Mound City IL

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.

Location Info


Old US Highway 51
Mound City, IL

Coordinates: 37.088021, -89.177922

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