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PATRON + Gee’s Bend – vintage pictures of residents and the new health clinic in 1939
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PATRON + Gee’s Bend in Wilcox County, Alabama at the start of the Federal Government Resettlement Program in 1939
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PATRON – Gee’s Bend was a part of Federal Government’s Resettlement Program in 1935 and a part of Roosevelt’s New Deal plan
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Vintage 1939 photographs of the progress in education and schools at Gee’s Bend, Wilcox County, Alabama
During 1937, the Federal Resettlement agency (a part of Roosevelt’s New Deal program) purchased the old Pettway plantation and two adjacent farms in the poverty stricken community of Gee’s Bend. The following year, a nurse began working in the community, and construction began for a school, store, blacksmith shop, and cooperative cotton gin. By 1939 […]
These vintage photographs from 1939 show how busy the cooperative store and mill in Gee’s Bend were in 1939
The Pettway family held the land of Gee’s Bend until 1895 when they sold to it Adrian Sebastian Van de Graaff, an attorney from Tuscaloosa. But Van de Graaff never ran the cotton plantation there; a family relative was the overseer. During the 1930s, Gee’s Bend saw a considerable shift in their community. A merchant […]
PATRON – See amazing pictures of people and abandoned Pettway Plantation, – isolated in 1937
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PATRON + The people of Skyline Farms were seeking a better life in Jackson County [film & old photographs] some people considered it socialism
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PATRON + UPDATED WITH PODCAST Alabama was the 1st home for two programs that helped married men during the depression
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