- City:
- Bogue Chitto, MS
- Site Type:
- Education and Health
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, National Youth Administration (NYA)
- Started:
- 1937
- Completed:
- 1938
- Designer:
- Seab Reynolds
- Contractor:
- John Quincy Martin
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Site Survival:
- Unknown
Description
The National Youth Administration built a combination teacher’s home and dormitory for the Lincoln County Training School for African Americans as W. P. 4306 in 1937-1938. Construction was supervised by John Quincy Martin and employed 20 boys for four months. Located on the west side of Highway 51, the building was 60 feet x 26 feet and contained 5 rooms for students, 2 apartments for instructors, and a receiving room at the entrance. The building was constructed of salvaged materials and painted brown with white trim, and white throughout the interior. Professor D. E. Magee and a committee of citizens sponsored the project at a cost of $657.30 for materials. NYA supplied payroll for youth labor at a cost of $646.80. The Engineer was Seab Reynolds.
Source notes
Series 2018 National Youth Administration Work Projects Photo Album. Mississippi Department of Archives & History Digital Archives. Retrieved from https://www.mdah.ms.gov/arrec/digital_archives/series/2018/detail/3710
Boys complete teachers' home at Bogue Chitto High School. Enterprise-Journal, Nov. 3, 1937, p. 1
Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on October 17, 2018.
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