Okeechobee Migratory Labor Camp

: Okeechobee migratory labor camp
Original caption: "Labor home for agricultural workers in Okeechobee migratory labor camp. Belle Glade, Florida. Photo: Marion Post Wolcott." Source: Library of Congress; Photogrammar: http://photogrammar.yale.edu/records/index.php?record=fsa2000037687/PP

Project type: Public Housing, Civic Facilities, Forestry and Agriculture

Agency: Farm Security Administration (FSA)

Completed: 1939

Quality of Information: Moderate

Marked: No

Site Survival: No Longer Extant

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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 (http://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).

Project originally submitted by Hans Johnson on July 29, 2018.

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Location Info

101 Everglades St
Belle Glade, FL 33430

Coordinates: 26.6585106, -80.68371009999998

Okeechobee Migratory Labor Camp – Belle Glade FL