Municipal Improvements – Swanzey NH

Description

A small amount of Federal assistance was provided to this typical small New England community (1930 population 2,066).

1933
RFC loan 730.84 for Highways & Bridges
Request for a C.W.A. loan for grading at the Factory, Center, and Westport schools.
THE PRESIDENT’S CHALLENGE
This crisis can be met, but not in a day or a year, and
education is a vital factor in the meeting of it/
—FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT.
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“The most important question requiring an answer today
at the hands of the American people is: What are we going
to do about our public schools? Shall we maintain them on
such a basis as will give our children an education in those
essentials absolutely necessary to equip them as individuals
and as citizens to lead such lives as men and women must be
equipped to lead in a self-governing republic of free men, or
are we going to let them slip back into an era of unenlightenment,
bigotry, and ignorance?”
—HAROLD L. ICKES, Secretary of Interior.

1934
Report of School Superintendent
“In March and April, the buildings at the Factory and West
Swanzey were painted with the use of C. W. A. Funds, the School
Board furnishing the materials and the C. W. A. furnishing the
labor.”

1936
Grants from U.S.A. $7,107.94

1937
Grants from U.S.A. $792.35