- City:
- Moorhead, MS
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA), Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works
- Started:
- 1934
- Completed:
- 1934
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Marked:
- Unknown
Description
Public Works Administration project 4592 was approved 2/21/1934 for a $22,500 loan and $7,719 grant for additions to the Moorhead consolidated school. Construction started 6/8/1934 and was completed 10/10/1934. The project included the construction of a six-room addition and other repairs. Three rooms were constructed on the east side and three on the west side of the existing building.
The school opened in September 1934 following the completion of the new building, one of the first of new school buildings in Mississippi to be built under PWA.
Source notes
Report No. 5, Status of Completed Non-Federal Allotted Projects, Region No. 3 Mississippi. (Jan. 3, 1940). Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works Projects Division, p. 104.
Moorhead to get school repairs. (Mar 3, 1934). Clarion-Ledger, p. 6.
PWA Chieftain to aid program. (May 5, 1934). Clarion-Ledger, p. 5.
Mississippi is awarded 11 million dollars on Public Works projects. (Aug. 13, 1934). Clarion-Ledger, p. 10.
Moorhead school enrollment high. (Sept. 15, 1934). Clarion-Ledger, p. 4.
Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on April 30, 2022.
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