Vocational Agricultural and Home Economics Building – Zama MS

City:
Zama, MS

Site Type:
Education and Health, Schools

New Deal Agencies:
Work Relief Programs, National Youth Administration (NYA)

Completed:
1938

Site Survival:
No Longer Extant

Description

One of more than 40 new vocational units added to Mississippi schools following an increase in federal funds in 1937, the white wood frame Vocational Agriculture and Home Economics building was constructed by the National Youth Administration.

Source notes

Series 2018-National Youth Administration Work Projects Photograph Album, 1937-1939. Mississippi Department of Archives and History Digital Collection. Retrieved from https://mdah.state.ms.us/arrec/digital_archives/series/2018/detail/3679 Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Historic Resources Inventory. Zama Consolidated School complex vocational building. Retrieved from https://www.apps.mdah.ms.gov/Public/prop.aspx?id=32855&view=facts&y=1112 Vocational Education Expanded. August 19, 1937. Hattiesburg American, p. 2.

Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on October 27, 2014.

Location Info


County Road 5040
Zama, Mississippi Attala County

Coordinates: 32.975, -89.38

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