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  • Thumbnail for Subsistence Homesteads Division
    The Subsistence Homesteads Division (or Division of Subsistence Homesteads, SHD or DSH) of the United States Department of the Interior was a New Deal...
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    brought about by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's program of Subsistence Homesteading implemented in the 1930s under the New Deal. In 1938 Congress passed...
    49 KB (5,683 words) - 06:05, 24 May 2024
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    Homesteading is a lifestyle of self-sufficiency. It is characterized by subsistence agriculture, home preservation of food, and may also involve the small...
    9 KB (810 words) - 14:33, 29 April 2024
  • II Subsistence agriculture Subsistence crisis Subsistence Homesteads Division, of the US Department of the Interior; a New Deal agency Subsistence pattern...
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  • Thumbnail for Subsistence agriculture
    Subsistence agriculture occurs when farmers grow crops to meet the needs of themselves and their families on smallholdings. Subsistence agriculturalists...
    22 KB (2,663 words) - 23:39, 27 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dalworthington Gardens, Texas
    Dalworthington Gardens, Texas (category New Deal subsistence homestead communities)
    a subsistence homestead project during the Great Depression under the authority of the National Industrial Recovery Act as part of the Subsistence Homesteads...
    21 KB (918 words) - 09:50, 21 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lake View, Arkansas
    Lake View, Arkansas (category New Deal subsistence homestead communities)
    Lake View is a city in Phillips County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 443 at the 2010 census. Because there is also a Lakeview in Baxter...
    9 KB (663 words) - 17:36, 14 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cumberland Homesteads
    Homesteads is a community located in Cumberland County, Tennessee, United States. Established by the New Deal-era Division of Subsistence Homesteads in...
    14 KB (1,587 words) - 04:42, 6 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Eleanor, West Virginia
    Eleanor, West Virginia (category New Deal subsistence homestead communities)
    Eleanor is a town in Putnam County, West Virginia, United States, along the Kanawha River. Its population was 1,548 at the 2020 census. It is part of the...
    17 KB (1,111 words) - 15:53, 28 May 2024
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    Homesteads (begun by the Division of Subsistence Homesteads) Cumberland Homesteads near Crossville, Tennessee (begun by the Division of Subsistence Homesteads)...
    10 KB (965 words) - 02:11, 15 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Roosevelt, New Jersey
    north in the center of the state, the borough was established as Jersey Homesteads by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on May 29, 1937, from portions...
    76 KB (6,922 words) - 00:30, 5 June 2024
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    wave of homesteaders just before World War II. During the Great Depression, the federal government built nearly a hundred "subsistence homestead" projects...
    20 KB (1,769 words) - 04:27, 6 June 2024
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    Aberdeen Gardens (Hampton, Virginia) (category New Deal subsistence homestead communities)
    Aberdeen Gardens is a national historic district located at Hampton, Virginia, United States. The district was part of a planned community initiated by...
    6 KB (445 words) - 17:45, 5 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Crossville, Tennessee
    federal government's Subsistence Homestead Division initiated a housing project south of Crossville known as the Cumberland Homesteads. The project's purpose...
    27 KB (2,129 words) - 07:53, 26 May 2024
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    to close. The Division of Subsistence Homesteads accepted the proposal in January 1934, and established Cumberland Homesteads, Inc. to oversee the project...
    11 KB (1,433 words) - 06:15, 1 August 2023
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    Penn-Craft Historic District (category New Deal subsistence homestead communities)
    sites, and six contributing structures that are located in the subsistence homestead community of Penn-Craft. The planned community was first built between...
    4 KB (274 words) - 00:18, 25 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Arthurdale, West Virginia
    Arthurdale, West Virginia (category New Deal subsistence homestead communities)
    miners and farmers. Arthurdale was undertaken by the short-lived Subsistence Homesteads Division and with the personal involvement of First Lady Eleanor...
    18 KB (1,764 words) - 02:25, 15 February 2024
  • Shenandoah Homesteads Project is an unincorporated community in Rappahannock County, in the U.S. state of Virginia. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names...
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  • Thumbnail for Tygart Valley Homesteads Historic District
    Tygart Valley Homesteads Historic District is a national historic district located near Dailey, Randolph County, West Virginia. It encompasses 337 contributing...
    3 KB (245 words) - 22:33, 9 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Farm Security Administration
    farms that were not economically viable, and the setting up of 34 subsistence homestead communities, in which groups of farmers lived together under the...
    31 KB (3,626 words) - 20:08, 2 April 2024
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