- City:
- Yuma, AZ
- Site Type:
- Penal Facilities, Military and Public Safety
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, National Youth Administration (NYA)
- Started:
- 1939
- Completed:
- 1940
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
In 1939-1940, the City of Yuma secured New Deal funding through the National Youth Administration to put unemployed youth to work.
The City of Yuma ran the former Yuma Territorial Prison as a museum from 1940-1961.
Source notes
https://www.yumaprison.org/documents/Parks-Master-Plan-2015.pdf
Site originally submitted by Harvey Smith on February 10, 2019.
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