- City:
- Brighton, ME
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Civil Works Administration (CWA)
- Started:
- 1934
- Completed:
- 1934
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
The community notes in the Independent Reporter of February 4, 1934 mentions New Deal help in this very rural plantation of 114 (1930 census).
“School at the Roosevelt schoolhouse reopened Monday, after a vacation of two weeks. The CWA workers have been making some much needed repairs on the schoolhouse.”
David Baker and P. Tripp are mentioned as visiting from the Greenville CCC camp.
Source notes
The Independent Reporter, a long defunct weekly county newspaperSite originally submitted by Andrew Laverdiere on July 24, 2016.
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