- City:
- Lebanon, VA
- Site Type:
- Schools, Education and Health
- New Deal Agencies:
- Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), Work Relief Programs
Description
The Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)’s “constructive project work” in Russell County, Virginia included “the Lebanon school ground.” Living New Deal believes this facility to be the historic 1925 high school building in Lebanon, now Lebanon Middle School.
Source notes
"225 PERSONS AIDED BY FERA WORK IN RUSSELL," Evening Herald Courier, Bristol, TN, Oct. 27, 1934 (pg. 5): https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/586534134/
1934 USGS map: https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/img4/ht_icons/overlay/VA/VA_Lebanon_185657_1934_24000_geo.jpg
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on August 3, 2023.
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