Photos courtesy of Linda Beeman
Here is the Island County Fairgrounds Pole Building as it appears today and, below, as it appeared in 1938. The building was one result of the Works Progress Adminstration, which funded thousands of construction projects in the 30s to get Americans back to work .
A stimulus antidote to our nation’s Great Depression, the federal government’s Works Progress Administration (WPA) funded thousands of construction projects in the 1930s to get Americans working again.
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