- City:
- Prairie Creek, TX
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
Description
Prairie Creek, Texas “was a farming community north of State Highway 64 and nineteen miles southeast of Canton.” (TSHA) The community possessed “a tiny country school of the Prairie Creek Common School District in Van Zandt County, Texas, costing $2,695” (Ickes); this school was constructed with the aid of Public Works Administration funds.
Source notes
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hrpas
"Back to work; the story of PWA" by Harold L. Ickes, 1935 (page 91). https://archive.org/details/backtoworkstoryo00ickerich
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on August 3, 2014.
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Stephen Taylor
The school, or perhaps schools, were located at 32°25’28.22″N 95°34’32.46″W, according to the 1949 USGS topo map for that area. Both gone, although a Google Street View image from 2008 shows a wooden structure about to collapse, but a 2015 Google Earth image shows the structure to be gone.