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Legacy on the Land: New Deal Resettlement in the Mississippi Delta
by
Jane Adams
D. Gorton

Paper given at the Joint Meetings of the Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society and the Association for the Study of Food and Society, Boston University, June 7-11, 2006


Map of SW Missouri, SE Arkansas, SW Mississippi, and NE Louisiana, with sites of several large FSA/RA project areas highlighted. Most of these were photographed by FSA photographers. Map compiled from GoogleEarth, 7-06

  • New Madrid, Missouri - LaForge Farms aka Southeast Missouri Farms
  • Hoxie, Arkansas - Clover Bend Project
  • Dyess, Arkansas - Dyess Colony
  • Pine Bluff, Arkansas - closest town to Lake Dick Cooperative
  • Sunflower, Mississippi - Sunflower Plantation Project
  • Mileston Project, Mississippi
    Lake Providence, Louisiana - Transylvania Project, Lakeview Project
  • Thomastown, Louisiana - LaDelta Project

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