I.O.O.F. Cemetery Wall - Denton, TX
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N 33° 12.509 W 097° 08.248
14S E 673591 N 3675946
WPA Workers built a riprap rock retaining wall around the I.O.O.F. Cemetery.
Waymark Code: WM14BX3
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 06/07/2021
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Denton Record Chronicle"President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s executive order established the Works Progress Administration on May 6, 1935. Two years earlier the Civilian Conservation Corps gave veterans jobs and job skills. The Works Progress Administration, renamed the Works Projects Administration, gave poverty-level heads of households much-needed employment.
The WPA allocated $3,184.50 to Denton for the first two weeks of September 1935. Continued funding depended on mobilizing Denton’s 600 families needing relief. The first project was to raze the John B. Denton College building, present-day Calhoun Middle School Band Hall. WPA workers moved dirt to Denton High School’s proposed Bronco Stadium to construct a 2,800-foot drainage ditch on Malone Street. Drainage work at City Park, present-day Quakertown Park, made flood-prone land usable after Quakertown residents’ eviction. Workers built an ornamental bridge at the park with riprap-style interlocking stones for erosion control, and a riprap rock retaining wall around the I.O.O.F. Cemetery."