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Facts about Ironwood Homesteads
Title
Facts about Ironwood Homesteads
Subject
subsistence homesteads
Excerpt
To provide 132 homes for low-income miner families who are poorly housed and subject to part-time employment. Families will follow a "live -at-home" plan, raising garden produce to supplement their income from employment in the iron mines of the vicinity.
On a tract of 1,758 acres of land for the project, each homesteader has a garden which averages approximately one- half an acre. Families raise truck crops, and have the use of the community dairy, hog and poultry farm. Cooperative facilities include dairy barns, a hog shelter and poultry houses on the community farmj and a trade center which includes a general store, drug store, barber shop, and shoe repair shop. The community center building has an auditorium, a fire-house, a cannery, and 25 acres devoted to playgrounds and an athletic field.
The 132 homes vary from three to six roams, and are equipped with modern plumbing, sanitary facilities, and electricity. Outbuildings planned include garages and a number of portable chicken houses. A central sewage disposal system will be built to serve the community, and electricity will be furnished by private utility. Telephone service is also available. Approximately two miles of roads will be built.
Many of the families who became occupants on December 1, 1937, were formerly on relief. The homesteaders represent a typical cross-section of the workers employed part-time by industries in the vicinity.
On a tract of 1,758 acres of land for the project, each homesteader has a garden which averages approximately one- half an acre. Families raise truck crops, and have the use of the community dairy, hog and poultry farm. Cooperative facilities include dairy barns, a hog shelter and poultry houses on the community farmj and a trade center which includes a general store, drug store, barber shop, and shoe repair shop. The community center building has an auditorium, a fire-house, a cannery, and 25 acres devoted to playgrounds and an athletic field.
The 132 homes vary from three to six roams, and are equipped with modern plumbing, sanitary facilities, and electricity. Outbuildings planned include garages and a number of portable chicken houses. A central sewage disposal system will be built to serve the community, and electricity will be furnished by private utility. Telephone service is also available. Approximately two miles of roads will be built.
Many of the families who became occupants on December 1, 1937, were formerly on relief. The homesteaders represent a typical cross-section of the workers employed part-time by industries in the vicinity.
Creator
Farm Security Administration
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Date
n.d.
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