Survival: No Longer Extant

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) developed the former Eastern New Mexico State Park, occasionally referred to as "Blackwater Draw Park", ca. 1934-6. Flynn: "This CCC-built site was originally created to reforest 9,600 acres of that Dust Bowl area. Later the state government reduced the amount of acreage to 400. The CCC built a large bath house, other houses, camping areas and a lake. All but one long house near the highway remains and was most likely the home for the park manager. In 1951 the state deeded the property to Eastern New Mexico University in Portales and they later built a large...

A former school building and gymnasium in Encino, New Mexico were constructed as a W.P.A. project. "The high school and gymnasium built by the WPA between 1936 and 1939 were recently torn down due to safety issues."

Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC) Company 3340 worked out of camp F-38 at the mouth of Big Cottonwood Canyon, Salt Lake County Utah, from the summer of 1935 through 1942.  Camp F-38 was under the direction of the US Forest Service. The hundreds of CCC enrollees assigned to camp F-38 made many improvements to recreational facilities along the Wasatch Front east of Salt Lake City, including work in Big Cottonwood Canyon, Little Cottonwood Canyon and Mill Creek Canyon. They built trails, roads, bridges, campgrounds, shelters, ski facilities, amphitheaters and more, and even carried out a couple rescue operations, as well. A panel near...

In the early 1930s, the Civilian Conservation  Corps (CCC) made improvements to an experimental fire station established by the U.S. Forest Service in the Shasta National Forest, at Pilgrim Creek just east of McCloud Ranger Station. Pilgrim Creek had long been the site of a tree nursery for reforestation projects, but in 1930 an experimental fire station was added to the site. According to a former forest service fire control officer, the experiments concerned fire detection, control and prevention (see document in photograph below).  The same officer recalled that the CCC built a lab and office, a house and a barn, and...

A former school building in Watrous, New Mexico was constructed as a W.P.A. project. The structure was demolished ca. 2008.

A former school building in Dunlap, New Mexico was constructed as a W.P.A. project. The building is no longer extant; the only shell of a building still remaining in this former community is the old church.

A former school facility in Mt. Dora, New Mexico was constructed by the W.P.A. The building is no longer extant; only an accompanying rock wall remains.

A former school facility in Sedan, New Mexico was constructed by the W.P.A. The building is no longer extant.

A former school facility in Madrid, New Mexico was constructed by the W.P.A. The building is no longer extant.

The Work Projects Administration (W.P.A.) constructed a (since-demolished and replaced) school building in Des Moines, New Mexico.