- City:
- Charleston, WV
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Completed:
- 1936
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Site Survival:
- Unknown
Description
The Works Progress Administration completed improvements and repairs for the Woodrow Wilson School in Charleston. The work consisted of “painting and repairing.”
Source notes
48 WPA Projects Completed in West Va., Charleston Gazette, April 26, 1936, p. 11.
West Virginia State Archives: (https://www.wvculture.org/HISTORY/education/images/kanawha/kanawha059.jpg), accessed February 28, 2018.
Site originally submitted by Ernest Everett Blevins on February 28, 2018.
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Julia McCutcheon Smith
This is all new info to me. However I did go to Junior High there in 1949 or 1950.
I am not sure why this wasn’t common knowledge. I do know about the WPA and the New Deal.