- City:
- Belle Glade, FL
- Site Type:
- Public Housing, Civic Facilities, Forestry and Agriculture
- New Deal Agencies:
- Housing Programs, Farm Security Administration (FSA)
- Completed:
- 1939
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
The Farm Security Administration build this camp in 1939 to house black
farm workers from the Caribbean. While there is still housing here, this is no longer a camp.
Source notes
Marion Post Wolcott photos such as (https://photogrammar.yale.edu/records/index.php?record=fsa2000037719/PP), accessed July 27, 2018.
Google Maps.
Michelle Wilde Anderson, Mapped out of Local Democracy, 62 Stan. L. Rev. 931 (2009).
Site originally submitted by Hans Johnson on July 29, 2018.
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