- City:
- Bedford, IN
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1936
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) built the Wilson Park Entrance in Bedford IN in 1936.
According to Ron Bell writing for Times-Mail, the WPA added “new entrances at Otis, Thornton and Wilson parks […]”
Source notes
"2400 WPA Workers Hold Bedford Jobs", Indianapolis Star (newspaper). June 20, 1936, in files of the Lawrence County Historical Society library, Bedford, Indiana
Ron Bell, "Still Standing", Times-Mail (newspaper), Bedford, Indiana, originally published June 10, 2013, https://www.tmnews.com/story/news/local/2013/06/10/still-standing/117454864/, accessed 1/21/2022
Site originally submitted by Doug Logan on September 20, 2022.
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