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New Deal places in Johnson County
21 New Deal places in Johnson County are on the map. Parks and recreation (1); Art and murals (1); Courthouses, post offices and city halls (2); Schools, gyms and job training (10); Libraries, armories and community buildings (2); Roads and bridges (1); Forests, fire towers and conservation (1); CCC camps (3). 3 have a full story with sources.
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Parks and recreation 1
- Clarksville municipal playground improvements
NYA playground plan included softball field with lights, tennis courts, and croquet court.
Art and murals 1
- Clarksville post office mural
Mary Purser based her 1939 mural on a county history book.
Courthouses, post offices and city halls 2
- Clarksville Post Office
Clarksville's post office was built in 1935 with Treasury Department money.
- Johnson County Courthouse
Federally financed county courthouse, project 7431.
Schools, gyms and job training 10
- Black School Building
- Clarksville district school repairs proposal
District-wide repairs included in same 1936 request.
- Clarksville High School Building No. 1
Home economics cottage, distinct from agricultural building and later replacement high school.
- Clarksville NYA vocational shop and warehouse
Shop complex for sheet metal, machine and auto mechanics work, with an adjacent warehouse.
- Clarksville school gymnasium proposal
Gymnasium in the 1936 school district application.
- Clarksville vocational agriculture building
Agricultural instruction building in the same grant as the home economics cottage.
- Clarksville WPA replacement high school
Replacement high school after December 1938 fire; distinct from 1936 home economics cottage.
- NYA school for Black pupils, Clarksville
School construction named among NYA projects of the three years preceding March 1939.
- Ozone School
Rural school later used as a community building.
- Voorhees School
Practice teaching school built with NYA labor for public school pupils and college teacher training.
Libraries, armories and community buildings 2
- Bunch-Walton Post 22 American Legion Hut
Community building funded under CWA project 36-34 T 2, with local matching effort.
- Clarksville armory NYA improvements
NYA improvements to an existing armory, distinct from 1930 original construction.
Roads and bridges 1
Forests, fire towers and conservation 1
- Ozark National Forest
The WPA and the CCC both worked in the Ozark National Forest, building Lake Wedington and its recreation area and three stone cabins on White Rock Mountain.
CCC camps 3
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