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South Side High School Sign

Van Buren County

In 1937, young National Youth Administration workers set these big stones to mark the South Side high school near Bee Branch. A year earlier the WPA had built a gym on the same campus.

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