- City:
- Laurel, MS
- Site Type:
- Stadiums, Civic Facilities, Parks and Recreation, Athletic Courts and Fields
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1937
- Completed:
- 1939
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
A WPA project for $21,000 improvements at the Laurel Municipal Stadium included brick seats to accommodate 3,000, a brick stadium house, brick wall at the south end of the stadium, permanent parking space, brick walls, brick ticket booths and replacing wooden curbs with brick curbs. The facility remains in use.
Source notes
Laurel submits project for work on stadium. (August 21, 1935.) Hattiesburg American, p. 1.
Mississippi Department of Archives & History, Historic Resources Inventory database. Retrieved Oct. 5, 2019 from https://www.apps.mdah.ms.gov/Public/rpt.aspx?rpt=publicPropSearch&Name=&StreetNo=&StreetName=&City=Laurel&County=Any
Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on November 29, 2019.
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