- City:
- Bordentown, NJ
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, National Youth Administration (NYA)
Description
What was then known as the New Jersey Manual Training and Industrial School for Colored Youth was improved by the National Youth Administration (NYA) ca. 1936. The site is presently used as a juvenile penal institution.
“In Burlington County 48 colored boys are working at the Bordentown Industrial School for Colored Youth, constructing four tennis courts and keeping the grounds in condition.”
Source notes
"The Dawn," a New Jersey WPA publication; July 1936 issue, page 3. Found at the Jersey City Public Library's New Jersey Room. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bordentown_SchoolSite originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 8, 2015.
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County Road 662, west of I-295
Bordentown, NJ 08505
we are interested in returning this facility to a trade school