Osceola Migratory Camp - Belle Glade
Aerial view of dwellings for migrant workers at the Osceola Migratory Camp - Belle Glade, Florida. State Library and Archives of Florida. Photographer: Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990
Started: 1939
Completed: 1940
Quality of Information: Moderate
Marked:
No
Site Survival: No Longer Extant
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Description
The Farm Security Administration build this camp for white farm workers about 1939. While there is still housing there, the camp no longer exist.
Source notes
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Marion Post Wolcott photographs, (https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/39807), accessed July 28, 2018.
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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