School Improvements – Pickens MS

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.

Location Info


West 3rd Street
Pickens, Mississippi 39146
Holmes County

Coordinates: 32.8873544, -89.9764732

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