- City:
- Butte, MT
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, National Youth Administration (NYA)
- Completed:
- 1937
- Quality of Information:
- Minimal
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Unknown
Description
Montana’s Big Timber Pioneer newspaper reported in early 1937 that several National Youth Administration (NYA) recreation projects had recently been completed around Butte: “winter sports area at Robbers’ Roost, four tennis courts which will be ready for use the next spring, 44 regulation horseshoe courts and three playground areas.”
Source notes
"Playgrounds and Parks Dot State", Big Timber Pioneer, Jan. 14, 1937, page 6.
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 23, 2014.
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