- City:
- Hurricane, MS
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, National Youth Administration (NYA)
- Started:
- 1938
- Completed:
- 1938
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- Unknown
Description
The superintendent’s house for the Hurricane School complex was constructed 1938 by the National Youth Administration as project W. P. 5206, Application 921. The stone veneer house used stone from the NYA quarry in Pontotoc County and shingles from the NYA sawmill. Superintendent of construction was B. McGraw. The house is no longer extant.
Source notes
Mississippi Department of Archives & History. Historic Resources Inventory, Thaxton. Retrieved Sept. 13, 2020 from:
https://www.apps.mdah.ms.gov/Public/rpt.aspx?rpt=publicPropSearch&Name=&StreetNo=&StreetName=&City=Thaxton&County=Any
Series 2018: National Youth Administration: Work Projects Photograph Album, 1937-1939. United States. National Youth Administration (Miss.) Retrieved Sept. 13, 2020 from: https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/federal/2018/detail/3664 and https://da.mdah.ms.gov/series/federal/2018/detail/3665
Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on September 14, 2020.
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