- City:
- Flesher, MT
- Site Type:
- Schools, Education and Health
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Description
[The newspaper] Big Timber Pioneer reported that the federal government allotted $1,144 for the construction of a new log schoolhouse in the former town of Flesher, Montana in Lewis and Clark County.Originally assigned to three WPA laborers, the project was completed by one worker named Jack. As a result, it was thought that the school in Flesher was “the only one-man WPA public building project in the United States.”
The exact location and current status of the building unknown to the Living New Deal.
Source notes
"Schoolhouse in Rockies Is Country's Only One-Man Public Building Job"; Big Timber Pioneer, Sept. 17, 1936, page 2.
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 10, 2014.
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