The New Deal in Virginia
Frank da Cruz
Bronx NY
fdc@columbia.edu
Summer 2017 and July 2020
Although I've lived in New York City since the 1960s,
I
grew up in
Virginia so naturally I'm interested in what the
New Deal did there,
too. This section of my
New Deal site contains
photos taken by Virginians George Gilmer — a friend since childhood
(1947) — and his wife Connie of Rockingham County; they had to spend
some time in the Hampton Roads area in 2017 and found that photographing New
Deal sites was a good way to see some sights and fill the idle hours. Then
in mid-2020 Connie started to photograph sites in Rockingham County,
beginning with Harrisonburg. I also made some contributions of my own from
the public record and a
certain book
(and then some other ones). Here's what we have
so far:
References
- Ronald L. Heinemann, Depression and New Deal in Virginia: The
Enduring Dominion, University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville
(1983).
- Joe and Patty Elton, Civilian Conservation Corps in Virginia,
Arcadia Publishing Images of America (2017).
- C.W. Short and R.S. Brown,
Public Buildings, A Survey of Architecture of Projects Constructed by
Federal and Other Governmental Bodies between the Years 1933 and 1939 with
the Assistance of the Public Works Administration
US Government Printing Office (1939).
-
The New Deal in Virginia, Ronald L. Heinemann, in the Encyclopedia of
Virginia: encyclopediavirginia.org.
- Legacies of the New
Deal in Virginia, The Library of Virginia.