• Marietta National Cemetery - Marietta GA
    Between 1938 and 1940 the WPA and the War Department conducted a joint effort to improve the landscape design of the Marietta National Cemetery (c. 1866). Though an elaborate archway and speaking platform had been erected in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the cemetery by the 1930s had fallen into disrepair. In 1938, the War Department agreed to have 150 WPA workers improve the grounds. Work included expanding the boundaries of the cemetery on its western side, rehabilitating existing structures and buildings, replacing over 8000 headstones, paving the drive areas, and constructing a reticulated rock wall around the...
  • Northcutt Stadium - Marietta GA
    In 1940 and 1941, the Marietta Board of Education and the WPA collaborated on modernizing the athletic field of Marietta High School. Work included grading the field to facilitate drainage, the construction of concrete stands, the installation of lights for outdoor games, and the erection of a reticulated rock wall around the entire stadium. According to Guy Northcutt, a member of the city's board of education who oversaw the work, as long as the city provided the materials, the WPA would cover the labor expenses. Upon completion of the project, the Marietta Daily Journal boasted that the city had the...