Whitfield Line School (demolished) – Ovett MS

City:
Ovett, MS

Site Type:
Schools, Education and Health

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

Completed:
1936

Designer:
Edgar Lucien Malvaney

Quality of Information:
Moderate

Site Survival:
No Longer Extant

Description

The main classroom building of the Whitfield Line Vocational High School was constructed in 1936 by the WPA. It was demolished in 2005.

Source notes

Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Historic Resources Inventory database. Main Classroom Building, Whitfield High School.

Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on November 14, 2016.

Location Info


Ovett, MS 39464
Jones County

Location notes: Highway 29, between Ovett Circle Drive and Shoemake Road, set back from the road.

Coordinates: 31.445026, -89.076309

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