R. H. Watkins Stadium Improvements – Laurel MS

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.

Location Info


West 12th Street
Laurel, Mississippi 39440
Jones County

Coordinates: 31.704872, -89.140108

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