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Facts about Palmerdale Homesteads
Title
Facts about Palmerdale Homesteads
Source of Digital Item
National Agricultural Library
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Subject
subsistence homesteads
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Initiated by the Division of Subsistence Homesteads of the Interior, the project was transferred to the Resettlement Administration, May 15, 1935. Unit A, consisting of 60 homesteads, was completed December 3, 1935, and Unit B, consisting of 42 additional homesteads, was completed during the early months of 1937, making a total of 102 homesteads in the community.
Purpose of Project: The Palmerdale Homesteads project was designed to raise the standard of living of such low-income industrial and clerical workers of the Birmingham district as were selected for occupancy, through home production of a considerable portion of their food requirements.
Purpose of Project: The Palmerdale Homesteads project was designed to raise the standard of living of such low-income industrial and clerical workers of the Birmingham district as were selected for occupancy, through home production of a considerable portion of their food requirements.
Creator
Farm Security Administration
Date
n.d.
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