• Athletic Fields - Monticello FL
    "Some of the early projects implemented included ... construction of an athletic field on city property near the public slaughter pen. The ... project included a football field and clay baseball diamond with lights."
  • Jefferson County Jail (former) Improvements - Monticello FL
    "The Works Progress Administration (WPA) funded the 1940 changes to the" former Jefferson County "jail, including the Woman's and Children's building."
  • Landing Field (demolished) - Monticello FL
    "The Civil Works Administration was absorbed by the FERA in the spring of 1934, but it had several projects underway by that time. On land leased from Dr. J. F. Williams and G. B. Truka of Daytona Beach, it was constructing an airplane landing field about a mile south of Monticello. According to the News, the Kiwanis Club had long desired the landing field, "and now through federal aid its dream is about to be realized." The FERA rented a warehouse from D. A. Finlayson to store its supplies."
  • Negro School Buildings - Monticello FL
    WPA projects in Jefferson County, Florida included "two three-room and one four-room frame school buildings for Negroes at Monticello, a vocational school at Aucilla, three one-room schools for Negroes in various parts of the county, and five two-room frame school buildings for Negroes at Turkey Scratch, Bunker Hill, Lightsey, and Lamont." The locations and status of these buildings are unknown to Living New Deal.
  • Road Development - Monticello FL
    "Some of the early projects implemented  included grading the "Big Lake road" out to the Wheeler settlement near Lake Miccosukee."
  • U.S. 90 Improvements - Tallahassee to Monticello FL
    The WPA conducted beautification and improvement work on the "Tallahassee-to-Monticello highway," likely meaning U.S. 90. The project employed "45 common laborers at 30 cents per hour for an average of $39 per month."
  • Water System Improvements - Monticello FL
    "Some of the early projects implemented  included ... lowering the water lines in Monticello to make the water cooler and help retard leakege."