- City:
- Washington, AR
- Site Type:
- Civic Facilities, Courthouses (State & Local)
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Civil Works Administration (CWA)
- Started:
- 1933
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The CWA was involved in repairs to the aging county courthouse which had been built in 1874 to replace an 1836 building. A few years later in 1939, a new county courthouse was built by the PWA in Hope Arkansas when the county seat was moved. Both the original 1836 and 1874 courthouses (which is the visitor center) can be visited at Historic Washington State Park.
Source notes
https://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=8581Site originally submitted by Andrew Laverdiere on July 13, 2017.
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