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Facts about Tygart Valley Homesteads
Title
Facts about Tygart Valley Homesteads
Subject
subsistence homesteads
Excerpt
Project is located geographically in the center of West Virginia, in Randolph County, ten miles southwest of Elins, the county seat.
Initiation: By the Division of Subsistence Homesteads, December 21, 1933
Purpose : The purpose of the project is to demonstrate the possibilities of rehabilitating the families of stranded miners and lumber workers.(Randolph County was once the center of a very active lumber trade, but in recent years most of its timber land has been cut over and all but two of its large sawmills have been closed. Most of these lumber men are now stranded in the abandoned lumbering towns, their former livelihood gone. In addition, more than two-thirds of those who were formerly employed in the mines are now stranded in the abandoned mining camps. While Randolph County has never been the center of the coal producing area of West Virginia, the industry has been important in the county. At the present time, there are only two important mines left, one era cloying 260 men and the other 140.
The Tygart Valley project was initiated for the purpose of rehabilitating these destitute mining and timber workers, both socially and economically, by establishing them in their own homes and providing new forms of livelihood. In the beginning, the occupants will derive their livelihood from the construction and development work on the project and thereafter their income will be derived from the operation of community enterprises now being initiated, supplemented by cash end real incomes produced on their individual tracts.
Initiation: By the Division of Subsistence Homesteads, December 21, 1933
Purpose : The purpose of the project is to demonstrate the possibilities of rehabilitating the families of stranded miners and lumber workers.(Randolph County was once the center of a very active lumber trade, but in recent years most of its timber land has been cut over and all but two of its large sawmills have been closed. Most of these lumber men are now stranded in the abandoned lumbering towns, their former livelihood gone. In addition, more than two-thirds of those who were formerly employed in the mines are now stranded in the abandoned mining camps. While Randolph County has never been the center of the coal producing area of West Virginia, the industry has been important in the county. At the present time, there are only two important mines left, one era cloying 260 men and the other 140.
The Tygart Valley project was initiated for the purpose of rehabilitating these destitute mining and timber workers, both socially and economically, by establishing them in their own homes and providing new forms of livelihood. In the beginning, the occupants will derive their livelihood from the construction and development work on the project and thereafter their income will be derived from the operation of community enterprises now being initiated, supplemented by cash end real incomes produced on their individual tracts.
Creator
Farm Security Administration
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Date
1938
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