- City:
- Pickens, MS
- Site Type:
- Schools, Education and Health
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works
- Started:
- 1934
- Completed:
- 1934
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
Project 5092 to install a heating system for the Pickens school was completed in 1934. The Pickens school, originally constructed 1916, was a 2-story building destroyed in 2003. PWA provided a grant of $307 for the heating system. It was approved 6/20/1934, construction initiated 9/18/1934, and completed 9/27/1934 for a total cost of $1121.
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. 104.
Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Historic Resources Inventory. Retrieved Nov 16, 2019 from:
https://www.apps.mdah.ms.gov/Public/rpt.aspx?rpt=publicPropSearch&Name=&StreetNo=&StreetName=&City=Pickens&County=Any
Public Works Allots Money for Canton Gas. (Jun 28, 1934). The Greenwood Commonwealth, p. 1.
Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on November 16, 2019.
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