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The Works Projects Administration (WPA) was a Federal Agency set up to put people to work during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl era.  The Agency was created to focus on putting labor to work quickly.  Prior to the WPa was the Public Works Administration (PWA) had the same vision, but President Franklin D. Roosevelt was not satisfied with the PWA's efforts.  The PWA was primarily large projects with heavy engineering and the implementation was just not fast enough to get large numbers of people working and earning quickly, which was the vision of his "New Deal".

• History of Lake Murray - Written by Ardmoreite Robert (Bob) Allen, geologist, this documentary ties the unusual geology that enabled the Lake Murray dam to be built and the WPA workers of the time.  Please see the section on the Geology of the Arbuckle Maountain area, which has tombstone-like rock outcroppings found in very few places in the world.  
• Artists of the WPA - .
• WPA and Roosevelt - .
• Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal - .
• History of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) - .
• The New Deal Network - .