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Old Oil Trough Elementary School Gymnasium

Oil Trough, Independence County

The WPA approved $11,244 in 1941 to build a gym for the Oil Trough school district, with about 38 people working on it. Locals say the old gym is now the town's food bank.

Kind of place
Schools, gyms and job training
Built by
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
When
About 1941
Where
Oil Trough, Independence County
Still there?
Reported gone

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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.