Alabama State Training School for Girls (former) Swimming Pool – Chalkville AL

City:
Chalkville, AL

Site Type:
Education and Health, Parks and Recreation, Swimming Pools

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

Completed:
1936

Site Survival:
Unknown

Description

The Works Progress Administration built a swimming pool for the former State Training School for Girls in Chalkville, Alabama, near Birmingham.

Source notes

Alabama State Training School for Girls, photographs: (https://www.bplcyberteen.org/resources/exhibits/new_deal/girlsschool/gallery/homestead/pa130026.html), accessed November 13, 2017.

Abandoned buildings at the Alabama State Training School for Girls (https://www.al.com/living/index.ssf/2016/08/eerie_abandoned_campus_of_alab.html), accessed November 13, 2017.

National Archives Record Group 69-N

Site originally submitted by Brent McKee on November 13, 2017.

Location Info


5849 Old Springville Rd.
Chalkville, AL

Location notes: Site of former State Training School

Coordinates: 33.674546, -86.628321

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