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Facts about Tupelo Homesteads
Title
Facts about Tupelo Homesteads
Subject
subsistence homesteads
Excerpt
Initiated by Subsistence Homesteads division of the Department of the Interior. Approved December 15, 1933. Construction of original 25 units (Unit A) started August 7, 1934 and completed October 25, 1934. Transferred to Re- settlement Administration by Executive Order, May 15, 1935. Construction of 10 additional units (Unit B) began April 10, 1936; completed, August 12, 1936.
The project was designed to give 35 low-income families better housing, and an opportunity of increasing their real income by raising subsistence crops. Homesteaders work in nearby Tupelo and practice a "live -at -home" plan on the project.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Individual home-sites on this 170 acre project average 3.12 acres. The remaining acreage is allotted to parks and roads. One of the two parks on the project has a 6-acre lake. Near the lake, a spring house and dancing pavilion have been constructed, and also several miles of gravel roads Homesteaders will raise truck crops, mostly vegetables, and will keep poultry and livestock.
The project was designed to give 35 low-income families better housing, and an opportunity of increasing their real income by raising subsistence crops. Homesteaders work in nearby Tupelo and practice a "live -at -home" plan on the project.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Individual home-sites on this 170 acre project average 3.12 acres. The remaining acreage is allotted to parks and roads. One of the two parks on the project has a 6-acre lake. Near the lake, a spring house and dancing pavilion have been constructed, and also several miles of gravel roads Homesteaders will raise truck crops, mostly vegetables, and will keep poultry and livestock.
Creator
Farm Security Administration
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Date
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