Address:300 Chickasaw Ave, Duke, OK 73532County:Jackson
StartedCompleted:1939
Agencies:WPANRHP:No

Current Usage

Only the truck shed is still used. New school built in place of original

Description

School campus had three WPA funded projects that included:

  • School – Burned down
  • Teacherage – Unable to find
  • Truck Shed – Still used as Maintenance shop for school

There is a WPA wall constructed around the front of the property which is still intact. Most small school districts constructed multiple structures on the school grounds to keep those unemployed in employment longer thus these structures have completed dates of 1935, 1937, 1939.

Sources

  1. Oklahoma Landmarks Inventory – School
  2. Oklahoma Landmarks Inventory – Teacherage
  3. Oklahoma Landmarks Inventory – Truck Shed
  4. http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~swokla/history/jackson/dukesch.html

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