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Works Progress Administration Dynamite Storage Facility, Approximately 1.2 miles South of Leaday, Voss, Coleman County, TX

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Works Progress Administration Dynamite Storage Facility, Approximately 1.2 miles South of Leaday, Voss, Coleman County, TX

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Summary

Significance: The facility was constructed to store dynamite used during the construction of a number of W.P.A. bridges along an adjacent ranch road. The road was an old road on the Day-Miller Ranch improved during the Depression at a time when the numerous schools on this and the adjoining ranches were being consolidated
Survey number: HABS TX-3360

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Date

1933 - 1970

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Contributors

Historic American Buildings Survey, creator

Donahoe, Julie, transmitter

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Location

coleman county, 31.62099, -99.56173

Google Map of 31.6209861, -99.56173319999999

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Library of Congress

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