The new American Legion building was dedicated with an appropriate program on Thursday, July 4, 1935. The building was constructed with labor furnished by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and others from around the community. The local Boy Scout Troup [sic] did a lot of the back-breaking work carrying and breaking rocks for the walls. The auditorium is 40 x 80 feet with walls of native stone. It contained a stage 20 X 40 feet with a concrete basement the same size beneath the stage.

The land was purchased from Walter N. Baker and paid for partly by members and the balance by public donations. In 1940, an agreement was reached with the U.S. Corps of Engineers to install a hardwood floor. The contractors for the Norfork Dam were to furnish the material and the Engineers were to install the floor and in return they would have use of the Hut for meetings.

[source: A Brief History of Alley-White Post 52, compiled by Win Church from notes, minutes and scrapbooks; covers period from 1919-1991]

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