• Eastland City Park - Eastland TX
    The Works Progress Administration built the entrance gates and wall around the Eastland City Park. The project also included the building of picnic tables and restrooms. Abilene Daily Reporter, September 3, 1935, p. 5. District 13 WPA Office Sends Application for 26 Projects to San Antonio State Headquarters. "City of Eastland: Concrete wading pool and swimming pool in Eastland park; 236 months; $8,739.50 federal; $9,949.55 total" Abilene Morning Reporter News, October 6, 1935, p. 1 and 12. New Projects Get Approval: Benefit 15 Communities in This District Blanton Wires. "Eastland park was approved for park  $3, 320, and for park improvement $1,055" Abilene Daily Reporter,...
  • Post Office - Eastland TX
    Constructed by the Treasury Department in 1936.
  • Post Office Mural - Eastland TX
    "Buffalo Hunt" by Suzanne Scheurer, painted and installed in 1938, under the auspices of the Treasury Section of Painting and Sculpture. Scheurer included "homage to Ol' Rip" in the corner. Ol' Rip was a horned toad interred in the cornerstone of the Eastland County Courthouse.
  • Road Paving - Eastland TX
    Among the Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects identified as underway in a Abilene Daily Reporter article from June 14, 1936 was the following: "Surfacing and retopping of nine miles of streets in Eastland is 90 per cent complete. Sixty-five men have been employed on the project for eight months."