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Preferred Citation

[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.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

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