In 1937 the State of Texas and Hardeman County worked with President Franklin Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration in an attempt to provide much-needed employment to indigent citizens and replace unsanitary privies with improved facilities. The advantages of these structures included a decrease in such diseases as typhoid fever, hookworm and dysyntery. The privies featured fly-tight construction and were carefully placed in areas where they could not pollute the water supply. One toilet was placed on this site behind the Hicks & Cobb General Merchandise store. When it was destroyed, another privy was moved from where it originally stood on the property of the Bellamy family. W. H. Bellamy and his family were Medicine Mound town founders. (1999)
W. P. A. Sanitation Project
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W. P. A. Sanitation Project is a historical marker in Medicine Mound, Hardeman County. It is one of 13 historical markers documented in Hardeman County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 17 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 34.1873, -99.5947 near Medicine Mound. The nearest cataloged historic site is Medicine Mound Community (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Hicks & Cobb General Merchandise Store, Big Valley Cemetery, and Old Mounds Cemetery.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5197011929. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
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