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New Deal places in Baxter County
13 New Deal places in Baxter County are on the map. Courthouses, post offices and city halls (1); Schools, gyms and job training (6); Water, dams and utilities (2); CCC camps (2); Other public works (2). 6 have a full story with sources.
Courthouses, post offices and city halls 1
- Baxter County Courthouse
WPA crews built this cut-stone and buff-brick courthouse in Mountain Home between 1941 and 1943.
Schools, gyms and job training 6
- Big Flat Gymnasium
In 1938 Big Flat decided its school needed a gym, and National Youth Administration workers, young men and women aged 14 to 30, built one out of native stone between 1938 and 1941.
- Buford School
Buford's school district put up $923 and the WPA added $2,706 to build this two-room Craftsman-style schoolhouse near Mountain Home in 1936.
- Cotter High School Gymnasium, Old
WPA crews built this heavy stone gym in Cotter from 1936 to 1938, using rough-cut native stone from Calico Rock.
- Horace Mann School Historic District
Norfork's old wooden school was worn out by the 1930s, so the WPA and the community built a fieldstone schoolhouse here, finished in 1937 and named for education reformer Horace Mann.
- Cotter High School (demolished)
- Smith-Hughes Building
Water, dams and utilities 2
- Cotter Water Tower
Before 1935, Cotter had no water system at all.
- Stone Creek Way
CCC camps 2
Other public works 2
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