The Tuckerman Water Tower is a historic waterworks facility at the south end of Front Street in
Tuckerman, Arkansas
Tuckerman is a city in Jackson County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 1,862 at the 2010 census.
Each year on the second weekend of May, Tuckerman hosts Hometown Days, for the town and fundraiser for the Tuckerman Volunteer Ambulance ...
. It is a tall metal structure, with four latticed legs, braced with rods and sloping inward, to support a water tank that is bowl-shaped at the bottom and topped by a conical roof. A pipe traverses the center of the tower for the movement of water to and from the tank. Built in 1935 with funding support from the Depression-era
Public Works Administration
The Public Works Administration (PWA), part of the New Deal of 1933, was a large-scale public works construction agency in the United States headed by Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes. It was created by the National Industrial Recove ...
(PWA), it is the only remaining PWA tower of its type in the county.
The tower was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
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Buildings and structures in Jackson County, Arkansas
Infrastructure completed in 1935
Towers completed in 1935
Water towers on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas
Public Works Administration in Arkansas
National Register of Historic Places in Jackson County, Arkansas
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