Where Can I Find Out If My Town Lighthouse Was Financed By the New Deal?

by C0RYH0FFMAN

Hi everyone. My hometown of Huron, Ohio has a pretty historical lighthouse (for our area anyway). It was originally financed with an appropriation from Congress a long time ago. I found out that it was rebuilt in its current form i, the 1930's. Being that this was during the New Deal, I wanted to find out if it was financed by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation or some other New Deal program. I contacted the Huron Historical Society but got no response.

Where can I go to find out this sort of information?

Thanks!

General_Buford

Is this your lighthouse? If so, it looks like it may have been a project of the Works Progress Administration. The WPA aimed to provide employment through work on public buildings or infrastructure, so such a project would have been a good fit.