“Some of the early projects implemented [by FERA in Jefferson County] included … construction of an athletic field on city property near the public slaughter pen. The … project included a football field and clay baseball diamond with lights.”
“The Works Progress Administration (WPA) funded the 1940 changes to the” former Jefferson County “jail, including the Woman’s and Children’s building.”
“The Civil Works Administration was absorbed by the FERA in the spring of 1934, but it had several projects underway by that time. On land leased from Dr. J. F. Williams and G. B. Truka of Daytona Beach, it was… read more
WPA projects in Jefferson County, Florida included “two three-room and one four-room frame school buildings for Negroes at Monticello, a vocational school at Aucilla, three one-room schools for Negroes in various parts of the county, and five two-room frame school buildings… read more
“Some of the early projects implemented [by FERA in Jefferson County] included grading the “Big Lake road” out to the Wheeler settlement near Lake Miccosukee.”
The WPA conducted beautification and improvement work on the “Tallahassee-to-Monticello highway,” likely meaning U.S. 90. The project employed “45 common laborers at 30 cents per hour for an average of $39 per month.”
“Some of the early projects implemented [by FERA in Jefferson County] included … lowering the water lines in Monticello to make the water cooler and help retard leakege.”