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Maness Schoolhouse

Barling, Sebastian County

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

The WPA built this schoolhouse near Barling in 1937. Six years later, German prisoners of war held at Camp Chaffee added its porch. It was fixed up in 2015 and turned into a restaurant.

Kind of place
Schools, gyms and job training
Built by
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
When
About 1937
Where
Barling, Sebastian 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.