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Facts About Escambia Farms
Title
Facts About Escambia Farms
Subject
subsistence homesteads
Excerpt
Approved June 25, 1936, the project was began by the Resettlement Administration and developed by the Farm Security Administration of the Department of Agriculture. The purchase of 12,915 acres of cut-over land for development into farm units was completed in February, 1938.
PURPOSE OF PROJECT: To promote farm ownership among tenants who could not otherwise buy farms; to give the families residing on the Pensacola Land Utilization project, which is new being converted into forest-land, an opportunity to move to farm land, and to demonstrate the possibilities of developing cut-over land into productive farms.
PURPOSE OF PROJECT: To promote farm ownership among tenants who could not otherwise buy farms; to give the families residing on the Pensacola Land Utilization project, which is new being converted into forest-land, an opportunity to move to farm land, and to demonstrate the possibilities of developing cut-over land into productive farms.
Creator
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Farm Security Administration
Date
1939
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