Cimarron Sites

Shelterbelts were natural windbreaks planted to protect land from the dust storms of the 1930s. The Great Plains Shelterbelts spans several states. The agency that started the project is unknown to the Living New Deal, but the project was transferred to the Works Progress Administration because of a dispute over the source of funding. Today, very few of the Depression-era shelterbelts are left, but a few trees remain of the shelterbelt built on the McFarland Ranch.  McFarland Ranch is a private property southwest of Cimarron. The ranch is south of the Arkansas River and the trees were originally irrigated by the Arkansas...

A school construction project in Cimarron, Kansas was undertaken in 1934 with Public Works Administration (P.W.A.) funds. The P.W.A. provided a $33,404 grant for the project, whose total cost was $117,563. The exact location and status of the facility is presently unknown to Living New Deal. P.W.A. Docket No. Kansas 1388