Desha County Training School 1938 PWA replacement
McGehee, Desha County
PWA-assisted 1938 replacement school for Black students after the 1927 Rosenwald-era building burned in 1937.
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- Kind of place
- Schools, gyms and job training
- Built by
- Public Works Administration (PWA)
- When
- About 1938
- Where
- McGehee, Desha 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.