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Facts About Grand Island Farmsteads
Title
Facts About Grand Island Farmsteads
Subject
subsistence homesteads
Excerpt
Started by the Federal Emergency Relief Administration in October, 1934, through the Nebraska Rehabilitation Corporation, Transferred to the Resettlement Administration, October 1, 1935.
PURPOSE OF PROJECT: To provide ten subsistence homesteads for low-income families formerly on relief rolls. Through intensive cultivation of their 7 acre individual tracts, these families will try to produce subsistence crops and a salable surplus for cash income.
PURPOSE OF PROJECT: To provide ten subsistence homesteads for low-income families formerly on relief rolls. Through intensive cultivation of their 7 acre individual tracts, these families will try to produce subsistence crops and a salable surplus for cash income.
Creator
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Farm Security Administration
Date
n.d.
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