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Solomon Grove Smith--Hughes Building

Twin Groves, Faulkner County

Photograph of Solomon Grove Smith--Hughes Building
Photo: Valis55, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons License. Source

After Solomon Grove's schoolhouse burned in the early 1930s, the National Youth Administration built this two-room stone building in 1938 and 1939 with Smith-Hughes vocational money. A local stonemason laid the rough stone in an unusual herringbone pattern.

Kind of place
Schools, gyms and job training
Built by
National Youth Administration (NYA)
When
1938 to 1939
Where
Twin Groves, Faulkner 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.