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Union Chapel School and Shop Building

Springfield, Conway County

Photograph of Union Chapel School and Shop Building
Photo: Valis55, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons License. Source

This fieldstone school near Union Chapel carries a cornerstone reading "1937-38 W.P.A. Project." It stands where the Rosenwald program had built a three-teacher school for Black children in 1922 and 1923. Today a sign on it reads Union Chapel Community Center.

Kind of place
Schools, gyms and job training
Built by
Not recorded
When
About 1937
Where
Springfield, Conway 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.