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New Deal places in Jefferson County
7 New Deal places in Jefferson County are on the map. Parks and recreation (2); Schools, gyms and job training (4); Housing and farm communities (1). 4 have a full story with sources.
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Parks and recreation 2
- Taylor Field
Pine Bluff wanted a minor league team, and the Brooklyn Dodgers agreed to make the Pine Bluff Judges a farm club if the city built a proper ballpark.
- Black Park
Schools, gyms and job training 4
- Plum Bayou
Plum Bayou, about 17 miles north of Pine Bluff, opened in 1936 as the first Resettlement Administration farm community finished anywhere in the country.
- Redfield School Historic District
Word came on December 13, 1938, that the WPA had approved Redfield's main school building, and work started December 29 with a full WPA crew.
- A.M. & N. College
- Black Students on the Playground
Housing and farm communities 1
- Lake Dick
Lake Dick, four miles south of Altheimer, was an experiment: instead of separate homesteads, families lived together in one village and farmed as a cooperative association that ran the farming and services like the general store.
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