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Menifee High School Gymnasium

Menifee, Conway County

Photograph of Menifee High School Gymnasium
Photo: Cid.williams, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons License. Source

This gym was built in 1938 with WPA money for the Conway County Training School, the school for Black students in the Menifee area. A local paper reported that spring that it was half done while most WPA men in the county were working on roads.

Kind of place
Schools, gyms and job training
Built by
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
When
About 1938
Where
Menifee, Conway 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.