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Description:On May 6, 1935, Franklin Delano Roosevelt created the Works Progress Administration (WPA) to employ the millions of Americans left unemployed by economic depression. This category is to waymark the projects created by the people employed by the WPA agency.
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WPA ProjectsWPA Project - McKellar Field - TriCities Regional Airport

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U.S. Senator Kenneth D. McKellar dispensed patronage through the WPA, thus the airfield serving the tricities of Bristol, Johnson City, and Kingsport, Tennessee was named after him.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member vhasler

location: Tennessee

date listed: 11/20/2008

last visited: never

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WPA ProjectsEast Tennessee State University Amphitheater, Johnson City, Tennessee

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Amphitheater built on the campus of East Tennessee State University in 1941 as a WPA project

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member PersonsMD

location: Tennessee

date listed: 12/28/2008

last visited: 12/27/2008

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WPA ProjectsStone Castle - Bristol, TN

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The "Stone Castle" is a city football stadium built with funds provided by the Works Progress Administration between 1934 and 1937.

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member vhasler

location: Tennessee

date listed: 5/15/2009

last visited: never

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WPA ProjectsCove Creek High School, Sugar Grove, North Carolina

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The rock building on the banks of Cove Creek was built by local citizens as one of the last WPA projects in the 1940's, under the FDR administration's "Second New Deal"

posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member PersonsMD

location: North Carolina

date listed: 1/5/2009

last visited: 8/31/2008

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