“The Civilian Conservation Corps camp, F41A, was established at Noon Creek in the Pinaleño Mountains in 1933. The camp operated during the winter. The enrollees built the Noon Creek picnic area located at milepost 7.2 on the Swift Trail Road…. read more
“The Safford Post Office and Federal Building was designed in the severely simple and unadorned International style. The building was funded by the Public Works Administration and constructed in 1941.” (content.library.arizona.edu)
This post office contains six tempera murals painted in 1942 by Seymour Fogel. Fogel painted these as the winner of one of the 48-State Competition Post Office murals. “In 1939, for example, Seymour Fogel sketched an elegant scene of Southwest… read more
” The Sanchez CCC campsite was established in 1935 to protect and preserve the natural resources of the Upper Gila River Valley. The area had been chosen as a national demonstration site by the Soil Conservation Service to stop the… read more
A major waterworks construction project in Safford, Arizona was undertaken during the Great Depression with the aid of federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. The PWA supplied a $340,000 loan and $196,364 grant; the total cost of the project was… read more