THIS BULLETIN is intended primarily to show the importance of gardening in city and suburban districts and to encourage greater efforts in these sections.

City gardening in back yards and vacant lots may be made the source of considerable profit and furnishes healthful exercise for the members of the family.

Gardening under the conditions…

LOCATION: In Maricopa County, south-central Arizona. The project is located on 4 separate tracts: Baxter, Chandler, Glendale and Glassford. Project Headquarters: Tempe, Arizona, which is about 3 miles from the Baxter tract, about 20 miles northwest of the Chandler unit, and 12 miles northeast of Glendale.

HISTORY OF PROJECT: Initiated by the…

This project was established as a subsistence homestead cooperative agricultural community to rehabilitate former mining families, who were stranded when mining operations in the vicinity were discontinued or seriously curtailed. These 254 families moved into small farm homes. Here they are attempting to secure social and economic stability, by…

Project is located geographically in the center of West Virginia, in Randolph County, ten miles southwest of Elins, the county seat.

Initiation: By the Division of Subsistence Homesteads, December 21, 1933

Purpose : The purpose of the project is to demonstrate the possibilities of rehabilitating the families of stranded miners and lumber…

Initiated by Subsistence Homesteads division of the Department of the Interior. Approved December 15, 1933. Construction of original 25 units (Unit A) started August 7, 1934 and completed October 25, 1934. Transferred to Re- settlement Administration by Executive Order, May 15, 1935. Construction of 10 additional units (Unit B) began April 10,…

Initiated by the Division of Subsistence Homesteads of the Department of the Interior, and the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, Transferred to the Resettlement Administration, May 15, 1935.Final approval, June 1,
1936.

PURPOSE OF PROJECT: provide farms for the families dispossessed of their homes, located in Shenandoah National Park.…

The project is located five miles from Hightstown in Monmouth County, New Jersey, It is approximately 45 miles from both New York City and Philadelphia.

Initiated by the Division of Subsistence Homesteads, December 2, 1933i Jersey Homesteads was transferred to the Resettlement Administration on June 16, 1936, and is now under the supervision of…

To provide 132 homes for low-income miner families who are poorly housed and subject to part-time employment. Families will follow a "live -at-home" plan, raising garden produce to supplement their income from employment in the iron mines of the vicinity.

On a tract of 1,758 acres of land for the project, each homesteader has a garden which…

Duluth Homesteads. In St. Louis County, northeast Minnesota, 7 miles west Duluth and 4 miles north of Proctor. Initiated by Subsistence Homesteads Division of the Department of the Interior. Transferred to the Resettlement Administration by Executive Order. Preliminary R. A. approval, December 30, 1935. Final approval, February 13, 1936.…

In Cumberland County, on the Cumberland Plateau, east-central Tennessee. Four and one-half miles from Crossville, seventy-six miles west of Knoxville, ninety miles north of Chattanooga, and one hundred and twenty miles east of Nashville.

By the Division of Subsistence Homesteads, December 10, 1333. Transferred by Executive Order to the…

One of the first projects of the Division of Subsistence Homesteads of the Department of the Interior, Arthurdale was initiated on October 1, 1933. The project was transferred by Executive Order to the Resettlement Administration May 15, 1935. It is now under the supervision of the Farm Security Administration, successor to the Resettlement…

Agricultural production on the Subsistence homesteads has its own peculiar problems. The following information has been condensed from a number of different State and Federal Agricultural Publications. These facts are presented in summary form to be used as a source of information regarding what has been done or is recommended in the various States…

PURPOSE OF PROJECT: To provide subsistence farm land to families who were living on unproductive land. Families will have a chance to become self-supporting and better their standards of living.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: This infiltration project of 3,162 acres will give farms to 23 families. Farms will average 22 acres on which alfalfa, com, sweet…

McComb Homesteads were initiated by the Subsistence Homesteads Division of the Department of the Interior, December 15, 1933. By Executive Order the project was transferred to the Resettlement Administration on May 15, 1935 and it is now under the supervision of the Farm Security Administration.

Low-income families of McComb have been resettled…

One of the best demonstrations of part-time farming as a supplement to small incomes and seasonal jobs can be found at Longview, Washington. Here the Federal Government has established a subsistence homesteads project for low-income industrial families "who are employed in nearby lumber mills and wood processing plants.

The purpose of Long view…

An opportunity for social and economic security was assured 147 Negro tenant families from the Transylvania area of Louisiana recently, when Farm Security Administrator Will W. Alexander 1 allocated 12,024 acres of Government-owned land for the use of the use of the LaDelta Cooperative Association. Many of the association members are former FSA…

This bulletin is intended to provide general information concerning the purposes of the Subsistence Homesteads section of the National Industrial Recovery Act and the policies formulated for the administration thereof.

The Division of Subsistence Homesteads is a unit of the United States Department of the Interior, subject to such policies and…

Homestead Houses: A Collection of Plans and Perspectives Issued by the Division of Substance Homesteads of the United States Department of the Interior

This booklet is intended to provide information concerning the type of house recommended by the Division of Subsistence Homesteads, under the Department of the Interior, in its low-cost housing…

The Division of Subsistence Homesteads is a unit in the Department of the Interior, subject to such special policies, rules and regulations as the Secretary, acting for the President, may prescribe. It is not a part of the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works.

This Circular is intended to provide general information on the purposes…

Jersey Homesteads is a subsistence homestead community located near Hightstown, New Jersey. The following is a summary statement of its development up to March 1940.

In the fall of 1933 the newly-formed Division of Subsistence Homesteads of the Department of the Interior received a formal application from the Provisional Commission for the…