- City:
- Paradise, CA
- Site Type:
- Schools, Education and Health
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
Paradise Elementary School was constructed with the help of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), which was very active in Butte County, CA. (Smith 2012)
Unfortunately, the school burned in the catastrophic Camp Fire of November 2018, which destroyed most of the town of Paradise. (Chico Record)
Source notes
Ken Smith, "Butte County gets a New Deal," Chico News & Review, May 31, 2012. https://www.newsreview.com/chico/content?oid=6160692
https://paradiseelem.pusdk12.orgk
Site originally submitted by Richard A Walker on March 8, 2018.
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