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Quitman Home Economics Building

Quitman, Cleburne County

Photograph of Quitman Home Economics Building
Photo: Valis55, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons License. Source

Fire destroyed Quitman's old college building, then the town school, in 1932. The WPA built a new school, and the National Youth Administration added this home economics cottage, started in November 1937 with $7,641 in NYA money and $700 raised locally.

Kind of place
Schools, gyms and job training
Built by
National Youth Administration (NYA)
When
About 1937
Where
Quitman, Cleburne 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.