- City:
- Spartanburg, SC
- Site Type:
- Airports, Infrastructure and Utilities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Civil Works Administration (CWA), Work Relief Programs
- Started:
- 1933
- Completed:
- 1934
- Designer:
- Milton G. Smight (Civil Works Airways Engineer)
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Spartanburg Municipal Airport opened in 1927. The Civil Works Administration graded the field, erected two runways and completed a new lighting system in 1933-1934. Work was noted to be started by 22 December 1933 and was to be completed by 15 February 1934.
A Spartanburg Herald 1933 article noted that the city sought out an appropriation of $200,000 for the improvement program.
Source notes
Ed Y. Hall, Spartanburg Memorial Airport Scrapbook History 1910-2011, Spartanburg, S.C. : Honoribus Press, 2011.
Federal Writers' Project, The WPA Guide to South Carolina: The Palmetto State.
Spartanburg Herald, December 1933, "$200,000 Airport Program Sought."
Site originally submitted by Ernest Everett Blevins on May 7, 2019.
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