A&M 2178Arthurdale Homestead Project Miscellaneous Papers, 1933-1942, 1977-1993 A&M 2178Staff of the West Virginia & Regional History CenterWest Virginia and Regional History Center

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[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Arthurdale Homestead Project Miscellaneous Papers, A&M 2178, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, business records, press releases, photographs, newspaper clippings, and printed material, regarding the resettlement of unemployed coal miners and their families to Arthurdale, West Virginia. Collection contains the papers of Bushrod Grimes (1888-1957), Project Manager of the Arthurdale Subsistence Homestead Project, 1933-1935, and pertains to the planning and administration of the Project. Correspondents include M.L. Wilson, Guy W. Numbers, Eleanor Roosevelt, Arthur Woods, W.E. Muldoon, O.B. Smart, Kathryn Fenn, H.W. MacGregor, J.G. Sillenbeck, Charles E. Pynchon, and G.M. Flynn. Oversize item is panoramic photograph titled "View of the Experimental Homestead Farm, Reedsville, WV; Mansion in the foreground to be made into school building," dated 1933/12.

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Arthurdale Homestead Project. New Deal, 1933-1939 Arthurdale Homestead Project (1933-1934) Arthurdale Subsistence Homestead Project, 1933-1935 Fenn, Kathryn. Flynn, G.M. Grimes, Bushrod. MacGregor, H.W. Muldoon, W.E. Numbers, Guy W., 1886-1972 Pynchon, Charles E. Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 Sillenbeck, J.G. Smart, O.B. Wilson, M.L. Woods, Arthur.