- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Flint River Farms Resettlement Community
- Creator:
- Hargrove, Tasha
- Date of Original:
- 2012-06-09
- Subject:
- African American agricultural workers--Georgia--Macon County
United States--Economic conditions--1918-1945
New Deal, 1933-1945
Planned communities--Georgia--Macon County - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Macon County, 32.35839, -84.04248
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about the Flint River Farms Resettlement Community in Macon County. Named for the Flint River, which flows nearby, it was one of several experimental planned communities established in 1937, during the Great Depression, under U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. The community became home to 106 African American families, most of whom had previously lived on the surrounding plantations, where they worked as sharecroppers.
GSE identifier: SS8H8 - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/business-economy/flint-river-farms-resettlement-community/
- Language:
- eng
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- Original Collection:
- Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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