- City:
- Edwards, MS
- Site Type:
- Swimming Pools, Education and Health, Parks and Recreation
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Civil Works Administration (CWA)
- Started:
- 1934
- Completed:
- 1934
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
A new swimming pool and municipal park were built in 1934 using Civil Works Administration funds. The school playground was furnished, athletic field improved with grading and concrete seats, teacher’s home renovated, and repairs made to the high school. Dedication ceremonies were held May 4, 1934.
Source notes
Clarion-Ledger, December 19,1933.
Clarion-Ledger, January 10, 1934, January 18, 1934, April 22, 1934, May 2, 1934, and May 3, 1934.
Former resident Byron Wood, on "New Deal in Mississippi: Edwards' CWA Swimming Pool & Improvements," Preservation in Mississippi February 28, 2018. Retrieved from (https://misspreservation.com/2018/02/28/new-deal-in-mississippi-edwards-cwa-swimming-pool-improvements/), accessed March 14, 2018.
Improvement Projects: “Building swimming pool at Edwards, Hinds County, Miss.” Retrieved from Series 443 Works Progress Administration Scrapbooks, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Digital Archives. (https://www.mdah.ms.gov/arrec/digital_archives/series/443/search/), accessed March 14, 2018.
Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on March 15, 2018.
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