New Deal projects

Highlights of New Deal projects in the Pikes Peak region:

1. Built Rampart Range Road

2. Monument Valley Park - Built a stone retaining wall in Monument Valley Park after 1935 flood devastated the city. Native stones were used to construct the retaining walls, creek channel walls, stairs, benches and entry points to the park.

3. Garden of the Gods - Workers planted many of the juniper trees that fill the park today. They also built stonework drainage structures that still function.

4. Palmer High School (then Colorado Springs High School): Building funded in part by New Deal money.

5. Manitou Experimental Forest, outside of Woodland Park: Six beautiful sandstone buildings are now on the National Register of Historic Places, and Civilian Conservation Corps workers planted 525,000 trees in the forest from a nursery in Monument.

6. Memorial Grove near Monument: The CCC was called the "tree army," and this was a major base for them. It was one of the state's largest CCC camps; workers sent 5 million seedlings a year out of the nursery.

ARTWORK

Highlights of public artwork produced through the New Deal:

1. City Auditorium murals, "Hardrock Miners" by Archie Musick and "The Arts" by Tabor Utley

2. Manitou Springs Post Office mural, "Hunters, Red and White" by Archie Musick

3. Cheyenne Mountain High School mural, "Navajo Runners," by Lloyd Moylan