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New Deal places in Logan County
11 New Deal places in Logan County are on the map. Parks and recreation (3); Art and murals (1); Schools, gyms and job training (1); Libraries, armories and community buildings (1); Water, dams and utilities (1); Roads and bridges (2); CCC camps (2). 7 have a full story with sources.
Parks and recreation 3
- Cove Lake Bathhouse
WPA crews started this native-stone bathhouse in April 1938 as part of a big project to turn Mount Magazine into a forest and recreation area, with roads, bridges and two new lakes.
- Jack Creek Bathhouse
Men of the CCC's 1707th Company, camped near Waldron, built this fieldstone bathhouse around 1936 for a swimming hole in the Ouachita National Forest.
- Athletic Field, Logan County
Art and murals 1
- Paris post office mural
Townspeople rejected Joseph Vorst's first design as stereotyped and backward, so he repainted "Rural Arkansas" in 1940 to show Paris at work: a prize bull, a coal mine, a modern cotton gin and pickers weighing their sacks.
Schools, gyms and job training 1
Libraries, armories and community buildings 1
- American Legion Post #121- Paris
Paris's American Legion building began as a community hall built by work-relief crews from April to October 1934, with 43 workers putting in 9,122 hours.
Water, dams and utilities 1
- Cove Lake Spillway Dam/Bridge
This five-arch concrete bridge carries Highway 309 over the dam that made Cove Lake.
Roads and bridges 2
- Cove Creek Bridge
WPA crews built this two-arch stone bridge on Highway 309 in 1936 as part of the big Mount Magazine recreation project.
- Cove Creek Tributary Bridge
Another 1936 cut-stone arch bridge on Highway 309 south of Paris, built for the Mount Magazine project.
CCC camps 2
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