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Willie Lamb American Legion Hut

Lepanto, Poinsett County

Photograph of Willie Lamb American Legion Hut
Photo: Colinhester, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons License. Source

Lepanto's Legion hut was built in 1934 with $2,900 from the Civil Works Administration and $2,000 from the Legionnaires. It housed flood refugees in 1937 and later burned; a new building stands on the site.

Kind of place
Libraries, armories and community buildings
Built by
Civil Works Administration (CWA)
When
About 1934
Where
Lepanto, Poinsett County
Still there?
Reported gone

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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.