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LaDelta Project for Negro Farm Tenant Families in Louisiana
Title
LaDelta Project for Negro Farm Tenant Families in Louisiana
Subject
subsistence homesteads
Excerpt
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 rehabilitation borrowers.
At LaDelta, cooperative enterprises started by the association will provide these low-income farmers with an opportunity for a healthful, well-rounded and self-maintaining community life.
The entire acreage, which will be leased by the cooperative for 99 years, will be sub-leased in units of approximately 38 acres each of cultivated land to members who will operate under farm and home management plans approved by the association and by FSA counselors. Sub-leases also provide that crops shall be cooperatively processed and marketed.
Of the 147 units to be set up at LaDelta, 19 will be located at California, 30 at Mounds and 23 at Fortune Fork, all approximately 10 miles east of Tallulah. The other 75 farmsteads will be established on the old Henderson Plantation, 10 miles north of Tallulah on Highway 65. All four tracts were purchased from absentee landlords.
Tenant houses now on the land will be replaced as fast as building operations permit by model five-room homes, to cost about $1,450 each.
At LaDelta, cooperative enterprises started by the association will provide these low-income farmers with an opportunity for a healthful, well-rounded and self-maintaining community life.
The entire acreage, which will be leased by the cooperative for 99 years, will be sub-leased in units of approximately 38 acres each of cultivated land to members who will operate under farm and home management plans approved by the association and by FSA counselors. Sub-leases also provide that crops shall be cooperatively processed and marketed.
Of the 147 units to be set up at LaDelta, 19 will be located at California, 30 at Mounds and 23 at Fortune Fork, all approximately 10 miles east of Tallulah. The other 75 farmsteads will be established on the old Henderson Plantation, 10 miles north of Tallulah on Highway 65. All four tracts were purchased from absentee landlords.
Tenant houses now on the land will be replaced as fast as building operations permit by model five-room homes, to cost about $1,450 each.
Creator
Farm Security Administration
Date
1939