- City:
- Stanton, TN
- Site Type:
- Forestry and Agriculture, Resettlement Communities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Housing Programs, Farm Security Administration (FSA)
- Started:
- 1938
- Completed:
- 1940
Description
The Farm Security Administration located 37 farms, developed from land mainly purchased from Willis Burchett Douglass, in the Douglas community near Stanton. The farms included a 5-room wooden frame house, outdoor toilet, waterpump, barn, and smokehouse. “The Project” as it was known locally, was developed as RR-TN-25 for African Americans, and local families participated in renting the farms with option to buy.
Source notes
Granberry, D. (n. d.) A Piece of the Pie: Patterns of African-American Land Ownership in Haywood County. Humanities Tennessee, Nashville, TN. Retrieved from humanitiestennessee.org Van West, C. (2001). Tennessee’s New Deal Landscape: A Guidebook. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. Correspondence and Reference Files of the Regional Director, 1935-1941. National Archives Identifier 631053. The National Archives at Atlanta. Retrieved from https://www.archives.gov/atlanta/finding-aids/rg96_correspondence_ent57.html Nunn, E. (December 25, 2009). Haywood County. Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture. Retrieved from https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=615Site originally submitted by Susan Allen on December 27, 2014.
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Thomas H. Skehan
mr pewett
I am interested in assisting some of the descendants of the original land recipients with researching the original boundaries of the WB Douglass property and the lineage of ownership of the properties. I am also trying to gather photographs, deeds and testimonials from these decedents.
for more information on the above, send a email.
demorecycle@hotmail