- City:
- Tupelo, MS
- Site Type:
- Civic Facilities, Military and Public Safety, Penal Facilities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, National Youth Administration (NYA)
- Completed:
- 1937
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
The city of Tupelo abandoned the old city jail following the 1936 tornado. The National Youth Administration remodeled the building the following year and established a woodworking and auto body shop for students in the building. It was destroyed by July, 2008.
Source notes
Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Historic Resources Inventory. Retrieved from https://www.apps.mdah.ms.gov/Public/prop.aspx?id=40050&view=facts&y=1112 Series 2018-National Youth Administration Work Projects Photograph Album, 1937-1939. Mississippi Department of Archives and History Digital Archives. Retrieved from https://mdah.state.ms.us/arrec/digital_archives/series/2018/detail/3785Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on October 5, 2014.
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