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July 1, 2016

In New Mexico, New Deal legacy gets a second look

By MORGAN LEE
Associated Press

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The National Park Service administration building, nicknamed the "Old Santa Fe Trail Building," in Santa Fe, New Mexico, serves as a testament to President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal public works projects.

SANTA FE, N.M. — Amid the misery of the Great Depression, Rupert Lopez gratefully worked for $1 a day for the Civilian Conservation Corps, making adobe-block walls for a new regional National Park Service administration building in Santa Fe, New Mexico.


 
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