West Virginia Industrial Home for Girls: Retaining Walls – Salem WV

City:
Salem, WV

Site Type:
Infrastructure and Utilities, Education and Health, Schools, Flood and Erosion Control

New Deal Agencies:
Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs

Quality of Information:
Good

Site Survival:
Extant

Description

The Works Progress Administration built retaining walls for the West Virginia Industrial Home for Girls in the vicinity of Salem, Harrison County.

 

Source notes

National Archives Record Group 69-N

West Virginia Industrial Home for Girls: (https://www.theclio.com/web/entry?id=45630), accessed February 16, 2018.

Site originally submitted by Brent McKee on February 17, 2018.

Location Info


298 W Main Street
Salem, WV

Coordinates: 39.282627, -80.574876

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