- City:
- Abilene, TX
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1942
- Completed:
- 1942
Description
Abilene’s South Junior High School, renamed Jefferson Middle School during the 1980s, was a 1942 WPA project. No longer a middle school, the building has “been used while other Abilene Independent School District campuses [are] renovated.”
Source notes
https://www.reporternews.com/news/2009/jun/21/wpa-projects-helped-during-hard-times/Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 14, 2014.
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South Junior High had already changed its name by mid-1975. It was then known as Jefferson Junior High School. When Texas went to the middle school system, it became Jefferson Middle School.
Per a comment on https://www.facebook.com/pg/HistoryInPlainSight/posts/,
“On June 9, 1960, Abilene school trustees adopted names for six new schools. South Junior became Thomas Jefferson Junior High…”
I will agree with David Bennett. My older brother went to South Junior and graduated from Cooper High School in 1964. I went to Jefferson Junior High , finishing 9th grade in 1966, and graduating Cooper High School in 1969.