• Airport (former) Development - Rock Springs WY
    The Civil Works Administration (CWA) worked to improve what was then the airport for Rock Springs, Wyoming. Located about five miles north of Rock Springs, the airport is no longer extant; it was replaced in 1942 by what is now known as Southwest Wyoming Regional Airport.
  • High School Stadium - Rock Springs WY
    The Civil Works Administration (CWA) started and the Works Progress Administration (WPA) completed a high school stadium in Rock Springs, Wyoming. The Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) was likely also involved, given the timeline in the article below. Casper Star-Tribune, Nov. 1935: "The folks in Rock Springs take a lot of pride in their new athletic field, and deservingly so. Started as a CWA project (as was Casper's new stadium), the field was completed last year. It is a splendid asset to the community, and supplements the excellent high school athletic system of which Rock Springs is justly proud. Roosevelt field...
  • Highway Improvements - Rock Springs to Green River WY
    Civil Works Administration projects in Wyoming included "shaping up and graveling shoulders on both sides of state highway between Rock Springs and Green River, cleaning out ditches and culverts on same road."
  • School Improvements - Rock Springs WY
    Cassity: "Rock Springs School District #4, in a standard approach applied to many other schools, used the CWA to conduct general repairs and overhauls of the buildings, treat the roofs, upgrade the plumbing, paint walls and varnish woodwork, and repair the windows and doors of the schools. Washington and Yellowstone schools were singled out for special treatment, but it appears that most of the schools in the district, and in the county, were included in this rehabilitation and repair work."
  • Street Improvements - Rock Springs WY
    A street improvement project in Rock Springs, Wyoming was undertaken with the aid of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. The PWA supplied a $21,176 grant toward the $64,644 eventual total cost of the project. Work occurred between January and August 1937. (PWA Docket No. WY 1046)
  • Sweetwater County School District Administration Building Murals - Rock Springs WY
    "Wyoming schools also benefited from the WPA Federal Art Project , which was responsible for a number of murals painted inside the buildings. Although the list of school murals is incomplete, it includes ... four panels in the Rock Springs High School library by Minerva Teichert of Cokeville ..." "The Rock Springs panels were removed from the Rock Springs High School and reinstalled in the Sweetwater County School District #1 Central Administration Building in Rock Springs."