Osceola Migratory Labor Camp – Belle Glade FL

City:
Belle Glade, FL

Site Type:
Civic Facilities, Forestry and Agriculture, Public Housing

New Deal Agencies:
Housing Programs, Farm Security Administration (FSA)

Started:
1939

Completed:
1940

Quality of Information:
Moderate

Marked:
No

Site Survival:
No Longer Extant

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

Google Maps

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)

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

Location Info


1284 NW L Ave
Belle Glade, FL 33430
Palm Beach County

Coordinates: 26.6967916, -80.6802731

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