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New Deal places in Saline County
6 New Deal places in Saline County are on the map. Art and murals (1); Courthouses, post offices and city halls (1); Schools, gyms and job training (1); Water, dams and utilities (1); CCC camps (2). 4 have a full story with sources.
Art and murals 1
- Benton post office mural
Julius Woeltz toured the local bauxite pits before painting this 1942 mural of an open-pit mine: men drilling for dynamite, loading ore into carts, one stopping for a drink.
Courthouses, post offices and city halls 1
- Old Benton Post Office
Benton's New Deal post office was built with Treasury Department money.
Schools, gyms and job training 1
- Old McRae Sanatorium for Negroes
The McRae Sanatorium for Black tuberculosis patients opened near Alexander on January 1, 1930, with 26 patients, and within days hundreds were waiting to get in.
Water, dams and utilities 1
- Benton Municipal Waterworks modernization
Benton planned a city water system in 1914 and built it in 1915 and 1916.
CCC camps 2
Places come from public inventories and are being checked one by one. Know one we missed, or one that’s gone? Open it on the map and use “Been here? Is it still standing?”. Updated 2026-10-14. Printed from dylanedgell.com/arkansas-new-deal