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Facts About Arizona Part-Time Farms
Title
Facts About Arizona Part-Time Farms
Subject
subsistence homesteads
Excerpt
LOCATION: In Maricopa County, south-central Arizona. The project is located on 4 separate tracts: Baxter, Chandler, Glendale and Glassford. Project Headquarters: Tempe, Arizona, which is about 3 miles from the Baxter tract, about 20 miles northwest of the Chandler unit, and 12 miles northeast of Glendale.
HISTORY OF PROJECT: Initiated by the Resettlement Administration with preliminary approval given December 4, 1935; final approval, March 12, 1936.
PURPOSE OF PROJECT: This agricultural community project was designed to establish 91 permanent homes for destitute and low-income white families employed as farm laborers on large-scale truck, fruit, and cotton farms in the Salt River Valley area of Arizona. Home production of food needs and co-operative activities are expected to supplement wages of these families, to raise their standard of living, and make possible ultimate ownership of their homes.
HISTORY OF PROJECT: Initiated by the Resettlement Administration with preliminary approval given December 4, 1935; final approval, March 12, 1936.
PURPOSE OF PROJECT: This agricultural community project was designed to establish 91 permanent homes for destitute and low-income white families employed as farm laborers on large-scale truck, fruit, and cotton farms in the Salt River Valley area of Arizona. Home production of food needs and co-operative activities are expected to supplement wages of these families, to raise their standard of living, and make possible ultimate ownership of their homes.
Creator
U.S. Department of Agriculture. Farm Security Administration
Date
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