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Big Flat Gymnasium

Big Flat, Baxter County

Photograph of Big Flat Gymnasium
Photo: Valis55, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons License. Source

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.

Kind of place
Schools, gyms and job training
Built by
National Youth Administration (NYA)
When
1938 to 1941
Where
Big Flat, Baxter County
Still there?
Not confirmed lately

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Sources

Part of Rediscovering Arkansas’s New Deal, a public map of 1930s New Deal work across all 75 counties. Updated 2026-10-14.