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T76-1
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- 1936-02-26 (Creation)
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This photograph from February 1936 shows William Pitcher (left center), the WPA foreman for the Fort Nisqually reconstruction project at Point Defiance Park, receiving a gold watch from G. A. Baker, the woods foreman on the project. The watch was a gift from the workers at the fort. Fort Nisqually was relocated to Point Defiance Park with the help of the Young Men's Business Club of Tacoma, the Chamber of Commerce, and several federally subsidized work relief programs. The project, whose cost exceeded $150,000 during the depression, created many needed jobs for men out of work. (T.Times, 2/26/1936, p. 7).
Point Defiance Park (Tacoma); Fort Nisqually (Tacoma); Depressions--1929; Administrative agencies--Tacoma; Works Progress Administration (Tacoma); Pitcher, William; Baker, G.A.;