- City:
- Aurora, IN
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Libraries
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Completed:
- 1937
Description
After the Ohio River Flood, the public library in Aurora—along with libraries in Jeffersonville, Lawrenceville, and New Albany—were furnished with materials and labor to get facilities back in “good condition.” These were provided by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1937.
Source notes
WPA Related Resources Available at IUB Wells Library - WPA in Indiana: "Caudell, Marcia, Deborah Jones, Ben Jessup and Marti Reeser. "WPA Library Projects in Indiana." Indiana Libraries, Volume 20, Number 1, 2001. 7-14." Dearborn County Interim Report, pp.85.Site originally submitted by Indiana DNR, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology on August 20, 2015.
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