Record #:

15481

Author(s):

Saunders, W. O.

Abstract:

The Works Progress Administration provided full-time jobs 20 days a month and seven hours a day with a subsistence wage for every employable household head in American who could not find employment in private industry. The goal: 3,500,000 employable men to be engaged in useful and permanent public works by November 1, 1935.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 3 Issue 31, Dec 1935, p1-2, 22, f

Subject(s):

Employment; Works Progress Administration

Record #:

17208

Author(s):

Saunders, W. O.

Abstract:

Began by Josiah Collins II in the early 19th-century and completed by his son Josiah III about 1830, Somerset Place was one of the state's most prosperous plantations in pre-Civil War days. Acquired by the state in 1939, the plantation will be restored and be part the state's newest park, Pettigrew State Park.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 6 Issue 43, Mar 1939, p13, 19, il

Subject(s):

Somerset Place (Creswell)