Fort Bliss National Cemetery - Fort Bliss TX The federal Works Progress Administration played a crucial role in the early development of Fort Bliss National Cemetery.
NPS.gov: "Labor hired for the cemetery and through the WPA constructed the national cemetery. The New Deal labor program, begun in 1935, primarily completed small-scale new construction, rehabilitation, and/or landscape improvement projects that could be completed in a year or less. In addition to the initial cemetery appropriations in excess of $44,000, the cemetery received a second $25,000 WPA project, of which approximately $22,000 paid for labor and $3,000 for supplies. ... By October 1939, the request for appropriations resulted in another $75,000...