- City:
- Biggersville, MS
- Site Type:
- Schools, Education and Health
- New Deal Agencies:
- Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works, Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Started:
- 1936
- Completed:
- 1936
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
Public Works Administration project 1135 funded the Biggersville school administration building, attributed to Stevens and Johnson by MDAH. The project was approved 9/25/1935 for a $14,500 loan and a $11,863 grant. Construction began 2/10/1936 and was completed 7/8/1936 for a total of $29,050.
Source notes
Report No. 5 Status of Completed Non-Federal Allotted Projects. Region No. 3 Mississippi. (January 3, 1940). Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works Projects Division, p. 105.
Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Historic Resources Inventory no. 003-COR-5019.1. Retrieved December 17, 2019 from:
https://www.apps.mdah.ms.gov/Public/rpt.aspx?rpt=publicPropSearch&Name=&StreetNo=&StreetName=&City=Any&County=Alcorn
PWA Projects for State Amounting to $4,122,097 are Given Presidential OK. (Oct 1, 1935). Clarion-Ledger, p. 1.
Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on December 26, 2019.
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