Great Depression: Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)
The Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) was a program created during the Great Depression era. It’s purpose was both to pump money back into our ailing economy as well as providing jobs for the jobless. Unlike many of the programs the money...
Great Depression: Competition Builds for WPA Projects
City and township Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects went into the hopper in fast fashion at the deadline for projects to be at submitted to WPA headquarters. Delegations from all over Northwest Missouri crowded into the WPA district offices at St. Joseph....
Great Depression: Good Impact of the Red Cross
By June 30, 1931, the Red Cross had given disaster relief to 38 of the drought stricken states which spread over the northwestern states. At the peak of the drought relief program, more than 2,000,000 people were being fed, clothed, and given other help, and in all of...
Visit the 1889 Squirrel Cage Jail, located 2 blocks west of the Daviess County Courthouse in Gallatin, MO. This historic relic is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and serves as a visitors’ center — by appointment,
Trudi Burton, ph: 660.663.7342
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