On April 8, 1935, Congress approved the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, the work relief bill that funded the Works Progress Administration. Created by President Franklin Roosevelt to ...

Green Cove Springs is a city of 10,000 with small-town charm. It began 150 years ago with little more than trees, a river and ...

The Historic Tomato Bowl in downtown Jacksonville has been voted as the top high school stadium in Texas by Dave Campbell’s Texas Football. The Tomato Bowl beat out the Puncher Dome in Mason in the ...

Fans of Dolly Parton are petitioning to have Nashville International Airport renamed in her honor -- after a bill to name it ...

Governor Kay Ivey The current 85-year-old drainage line, installed during the Works Progress Administration era, runs beneath church playgrounds and activity centers without a public right-of-way.

According to the state, the current drainage line is 85 years old, and was installed during the Works Progress Administration enacted by then President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Officials say that ...

As I have said before, those who were born and raised in town, or who have lived here for many years, are well aware of a ...

Harry Smith Berry, who served as administrator for the Works Progress Administration. The naming took place when the airport opened in 1937. Berry died in 1967, but airport’s code still carries ...

"Over almost 12 days, we collected oral histories. ... We taught workshops, we stayed in WPA (Works Progress Administration) buildings, we cooked our own food for each other," Solis recalled.

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt bought into Wallock's vision so much so that Roosevelt signed off on a plan to have the federal Works Progress Administration, informally known as WPA ...

Mr. Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration provided 8.5 million Americans with jobs; Mr. Musk has measured his achievement by the number of jobs he has eliminated. Four years ago, I made a ...

In 1935, the U.S. Congress approved the Works Progress Administration, a central part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. In 1952, U.S. President Harry Truman ordered government seizure ...