- 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.
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