A BETTER WEST VIRGINIA Part 1

Description

On Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects in West Virginia. The Tri-County Airport at Clarksburg is graded. Streets in Morgantown are repaired. Shows remodeled buildings at Marshall College in Huntington, WPA sewing room activities, and nursery school scenes. County roads are graded and resurfaced near Helvetia. Shows mountain scenes, a fish hatchery at Ridge, and a new bridge at Charleston. Flood waters rage in 1936. Shows a new bridge at Petersburg and rebuilt flood walls and dikes. Activities on a cooperative farm in Mercier County are shown. Orphans play and swim at Camp Fairchance.

Collection

Records of the Work Projects Administration

Series

Motion Picture Films