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Facts about Cumberland Homesteads
Title
Facts about Cumberland Homesteads
Subject
subsistence homesteads
Excerpt
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 Resettlement Administration, May 15, 1935.
The project is designed for the rehabilitation of three groups of families: timber workers, miners, and farmers in poor land areas.
Construction of 251 new homes and development work from which the homesteaders originally derived their livelihood has been completed. The men have now found work at the canning factory which employs 300 workers and in the coal mine on the project. These co-operative enterprises are owned by the Cumberland Homesteaders' Cooperative Association, a non-profit community association with homestead membership chartered under the laws of the State of Tennessee.
Many of the families supplement their cash income by raising crops on individual tracts of 17 acres. Approximately 80,000 quarts of fruits and vegetables were canned by homemakers last year for family consumption, in their spare time, many of the women weave curtains and rugs at the weaving shop where they are instructed in the art.
By the Division of Subsistence Homesteads, December 10, 1333. Transferred by Executive Order to the Resettlement Administration, May 15, 1935.
The project is designed for the rehabilitation of three groups of families: timber workers, miners, and farmers in poor land areas.
Construction of 251 new homes and development work from which the homesteaders originally derived their livelihood has been completed. The men have now found work at the canning factory which employs 300 workers and in the coal mine on the project. These co-operative enterprises are owned by the Cumberland Homesteaders' Cooperative Association, a non-profit community association with homestead membership chartered under the laws of the State of Tennessee.
Many of the families supplement their cash income by raising crops on individual tracts of 17 acres. Approximately 80,000 quarts of fruits and vegetables were canned by homemakers last year for family consumption, in their spare time, many of the women weave curtains and rugs at the weaving shop where they are instructed in the art.
Creator
Farm Security Administration
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Date
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