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Williamson Hall at Arkansas Tech University

Russellville, Pope County

Photograph of Williamson Hall at Arkansas Tech University
Photo: Liz Chrisman, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons License. Source

Arkansas Tech president Joseph Hull was also the state director of the National Youth Administration, which hired young people aged 16 to 25. This two-story brick building on the Russellville campus was built by the NYA.

Kind of place
Schools, gyms and job training
Built by
National Youth Administration (NYA)
Where
Russellville, Pope 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.