- City:
- Black Diamond, WA
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Description
A WPA press release from Jan. 1938 reported:
“Improvement of the grade school building at Black Diamond also begins this week. WPA workers will modernize the inside and landscape and seed the grounds and add other improvements, with the aid of $7,190 in Federal funds and material funds from the sponsor, Abel said.”
The exact location and status of the old school is unknown to Living New Deal.
Source notes
WPA Press Release [#369], Jan. 5, 1938, [page 69]: https://www.sos.wa.gov/legacy/images/publications/SL_wpawapressrelease_no301to400/SL_wpawapressrelease_no301to400.pdfSite originally submitted by Evan Kalish on November 25, 2014.
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Mary Arient
Gabriel Milner
Do you know the WPA number for the project?
Can anyone locate that number?