- City:
- Hawaii, Pahala, HI
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding
- Started:
- 1935
- Completed:
- 1939
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Public Works Administration (PWA) funded new construction or improvement work for the school in Pahala, on the Big Island. The PWA grant amounted to $15,930, and the work was carried out in 1938. The project, listed as Docket No. TH-1070-F, was part of the PWA’s non-federal projects expenditure for the Territory of Hawaii for 1938-1939. Located in a rural plantation town, the Kau High and Pahala Elementary School consists of several classroom buildings with large lanai and corrugated metal roofs.
Source notes
Hawaii State Archives, GOV8-18, U.S. Departments, Emergency Relief – Works Progress Administration.
Kau High and Pahala Elementary School, Historic Hawaii Foundation, accessed June 25, 2017.
Site originally submitted by Brent McKee on June 30, 2017.
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