Project type: Education and Health, Schools
New Deal Agencies: Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Started: 1942
Completed: 1942
Site Survival: No Longer Extant
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Description
North Junior High School, renamed Franklin Middle School during the 1980s, was a WPA project constructed during 1942. The building was demolished at the end of 2010 (or very early 2011) and the Mary P. Martinez Elementary School was built in its place.
The Abilene Reporter-News reports that “two marble plaques from Franklin had been collected and will be placed on the walls in the new elementary school…”
Source notes
http://www.reporternews.com/news/2009/jun/21/wpa-projects-helped-during-hard-times/
http://www.reporternews.com/news/2010/dec/10/former-franklin-students-remember-school-set-to/
Project originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 7, 2014.
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