- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation, Amphitheaters and Bandshells
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, National Youth Administration (NYA)
- Started:
- 1937
- Completed:
- 1939
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
There are multiple facilities in the park – an amphitheater with a NYA marker 1937-38, an unmarked 2 room community center dedicated in 1939 (newspaper article), two park entrance gates, retaining walls with steps, picnic tables and benches, a covered picnic area, and a bathhouse for the swimming pool. While only the amphitheater and community center have documentation, I believe the other items are also the work of the NYA.
Source notes
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/10532118/abilene_reporternews/
Site originally submitted by Eveline Evans on April 3, 2019.
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