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Moorefield School

Moorefield, Independence County

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

Four miles east of Batesville, Moorefield kept its own school district, and in 1939 it got National Youth Administration money for a new fieldstone school, a common look for NYA work in the Ozarks. The cornerstone still credits the NYA.

Kind of place
Schools, gyms and job training
Built by
National Youth Administration (NYA)
When
About 1939
Where
Moorefield, Independence 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.