- City:
- Carbon Hill, AL
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation, Swimming Pools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Completed:
- 1937
Description
The Works Progress Administration built a public pool in Carbon Hill circa 1937.
The exact location and condition of the structure is unknown to the Living New Deal.
According to the Encyclopedia of Alabama, “The Great Depression hit Carbon Hill particularly hard as the coal mines on which it depended for three-quarters of its employment and income shut down completely. With the monetary aid of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the Public Works Administration (PWA), which was supplemented by local sponsors, many Carbon Hill residents found work on projects that improved the town’s infrastructure. In addition to street improvements, townspeople helped put in a new sanitary sewer system, built a new high school that included a vocational education building, constructed a swimming pool and recreation area, and built a new jail, among other projects.”
Source notes
National Archives Record Group 69-N
Encyclopedia of Alabama: (https://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-3415), accessed November 11, 2017.
Site originally submitted by Brent McKee on November 11, 2017.
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