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Buford School

Buford, Baxter County

Photograph of Buford School
Photo: Valis55, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons License. Source

Buford's school district put up $923 and the WPA added $2,706 to build this two-room Craftsman-style schoolhouse near Mountain Home in 1936. Materials started arriving that January, according to the local paper.

Kind of place
Schools, gyms and job training
Built by
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
When
About 1936
Where
Buford, 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.