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Old photographs to share from Skyline Farms in Jackson County, Alabama? [old photographs] Skyline Farms – Part 7

by Donna R Causey

The Skyline Farms project, established by the federal government in Jackson County in 1934, was one of the more unique socioeconomic experiments in Alabama…

Read More Old photographs to share from Skyline Farms in Jackson County, Alabama? [old photographs] Skyline Farms – Part 7
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PATRON + Time to celebrate! [1937 photographs of people from Jackson County, Alabama] This is what they did for fun at Skyline Farms – Part 6 –

by Donna R Causey

Skyline Farms was a 'New Deal' Resettlement project in Jackson County, Alabama that was initiated in 1935 to help displaced farmers. Before the projects…

Read More PATRON + Time to celebrate! [1937 photographs of people from Jackson County, Alabama] This is what they did for fun at Skyline Farms – Part 6 –
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PATRON + Great Depression experiment – Skyline Farms – [vintage photographs] Part 3 – The men had to build their own homes

by Donna R Causey

Skyline Farms, a resettlement community in 1935, to provide help to farmers in the Great Depression was built by the resettled farmers in Jackson…

Read More PATRON + Great Depression experiment – Skyline Farms – [vintage photographs] Part 3 – The men had to build their own homes
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PATRON + The people of Skyline Farms were seeking a better life in Jackson County [film & old photographs] some people considered it socialism

by Donna R Causey

Skyline Farms was one of 43 similar projects to assist and relocate farmers devastated by the Great Depression in a new home with a…

Read More PATRON + The people of Skyline Farms were seeking a better life in Jackson County [film & old photographs] some people considered it socialism
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PATRON + Schools have changed in many ways since these days when life was so much simpler – Notice how the teachers are dressed [old photographs] Skyline Farms – Part 5

by Donna R Causey

These photographs of students and teachers at Skyline Farms in the Resettlement Community at Jackson County, Alabama during the Great Depression, reveal how far we've…

Read More PATRON + Schools have changed in many ways since these days when life was so much simpler – Notice how the teachers are dressed [old photographs] Skyline Farms – Part 5
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PATRON + Could you sit on these hard benches with no backs for long hours in school? [1936 Photographs & film] – Skyline Farms – Part 4 –

by Donna R Causey

This is the 4th part of seven in the Skyline Farms photographs series. Skyline Farms was a farm resettlement community in Jackson County, Alabama…

Read More PATRON + Could you sit on these hard benches with no backs for long hours in school? [1936 Photographs & film] – Skyline Farms – Part 4 –
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PATRON + The people lived in these small buildings while they waited on a house to be built at Skyline Farms [vintage photographs] Part 2

by Donna R Causey

Tiny houses are nothing new!  Imagine living in these houses with a large family even if they were only temporary. This is part of…

Read More PATRON + The people lived in these small buildings while they waited on a house to be built at Skyline Farms [vintage photographs] Part 2