Cahaba Homestead Village Trussville, Alabama

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Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, The "Historic Cahaba Homestead Village" also known as the "Cahaba Project" and "Slagheap Village" for the heaps of blast furnace slag, left from a World War I era blast furnace site on the banks of the Cahaba River,was one of the many housing initiatives of the New Deal under the Franklin Roosevelt Administration. In addition to 287 homes, the project included, a school, a co-op store, paved sidewalks, electric street lights, storm sewers,sanitary sewer system,a stone bridge over the Cahaba River, and numerous parks. Of the more than 100 of these resettlement communities built around the country, the Cahaba Homestead was one of the largest. There were several types of these communities: "Green Towns" or "Greenbelt" towns There were three of these towns built and were by far the largest. There is Greenbelt Maryland, Greenhills Ohio, and Greendale Wisconsin. Each of these had between 500 and 900 homes. Industrial communities were for industrial workers to have affordable housing. ex. Cahaba Homesteads Trussville AL and El Monte Homesteads in El Monte, CA. Farm communities were the majority of communities built. There were large farm communities and smaller farm villages. Large farm communities ex. Roanoke Farms in NC,(the largest) and Dyess Colony in Mississippi County, Arkansas(where Johnny Cash grew up). Smaller farm villages were built in Nebraska, South Dakota, and Texas ex. Kearney Homesteads Buffalo County Nebraska, Sioux Falls Farms Minnehaha County South Dakota, and Woodlake Community in Wood County Texas. Stranded Communities were built for areas that were somewhat isolated and the local economies such as coal mining were very depressed. ex. Arthurdale WV and Cumberland Homesteads at Crossville TN. Communities for Negroes ex. Aberbeen Gardens Newport News Virginia, Roanoke Farms/Tillery, North Carolina, and Gees Bend Farms Wilcox County Alabama. If you have video of any of these houses, farms and communities, please post a video response. If you have knowledge of these communities, please leave a comment.

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