After a grueling day picking cotton, at the New Deal, Lake Dick Project in Arkansas, day laborers were rewarded with their pay each evening for their work. The counting and recording took time so the laborers had to wait time to receive payment. Many rested, while others stood and watched the monetary transactions as these photographs taken by Russell […]
The United States government required residents to have a steady job The United States government required residents to have a steady job, making between $1,000 and $2,500 a year – that would be $16,000 to $40,000 today to become a resident of the Resettlement community of Greenhills, Ohio in 1938. This stipulation kept many of […]
Asbestos wall board was used in building this town The photographs below reveal that asbestos wall board was used in building this town in Ohio. The men working on the Greenhills Resettlement project in 1937 were exposed to asbestos. I wonder if they became ill later and if the wallboard has been removed. Greenhills alone cost $11.5 […]
Mules, tractors and shovels built this town When construction started on the town, there was no heavy equipment to move the earth, only tractors and men with shovels and the project provided work for them. The village of Greenhills, a greenbelt community in northern Hamilton County was built by the federal government as part of President Franklin […]
Little remains of the Lake Dick Project from Roosevelt’s New Deal. All that is left are a few houses. The area is currently on the National Register of Historic Places. When it was active, there was considerable work for everyone as seen by the photographs taken in 1938 by Russell Lee and Dorothea Lange. Dairy […]
Many children lived in the New Deal, Lake Dick Project in Arkansas in 1938 and new schools were built for them as can be seen in the photographs below Lake Dick Agricultural High School by photographer Russell Lee Oct. 1938 Lake Dick School House also doubled as a Community Center, photographer Russell Lee Oct. 1938 Principal […]
Lake Dick, Arkansas represents a unique experience in American agricultural history because it is one of a small number of communal farms established and operated by the United States Government as part of President Roosevelt’s New Deal. Lake Dick represents the most socialistically oriented of the many cooperative farms established in the 1930’s. “The organization […]
Greenbelt towns would rival ‘Green Projects’ today In the midst of The Great Depression, a New Deal program called the Greenbelt Town program, built a series of highly rational garden cities that would rival “Green projects” today. Only three small projects were built. Greenhills, Ohio is one of only three “Greenbelt Towns” built in the […]
In 1987, the small town of Roosevelt received national publicity when a man who never sought the position and did not want to be was elected mayor. Roosevelt, New Jersey has a rich history. The town was actually started as a Resettlement community for Jewish immigrants in the New York garment district of New York. […]
The Dust Bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s. The migrants moved from terrible living conditions back home to not much better living conditions in California. The photographs below were taken by […]
