School Improvements – Monument CO

City:
Monument, CO

Site Type:
Education and Health, Schools

New Deal Agencies:
Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)

Started:
1939

Completed:
1939

Description

An August 25, 1939 article in the Bartlett Tribune and News reported on the latest round of PWA funding:

“The first project to get under construction in [‘Region 5’, as part of a new round of funded projects] was at Monument, Colorado, on August 3, 1939. The project, calling for $1,300 worth of school improvements, was one of the nation’s smallest and also the first of [this round of] PWA projects to be completed in the United States.”

Source notes

"PWA Completed 481 Projects In Fifth Region"; The Bartlett Tribune and News (Bartlett, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 49, Ed. 1, Friday, August 25, 1939 https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth76591/m1/7/zoom/?q=PWA

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 7, 2014.

Location Info


Monument, CO El Paso County

Location notes: General marker for the city of Monument.

Coordinates: 39.0916586, -104.87275

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