Arthurdale, West Virginia

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Arthurdale, West Virginia, is a historic New Deal-era planned community established in the 1930s as a homestead project championed by Eleanor Roosevelt.

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instanceOf New Deal homestead project
census-designated place
planned community
unincorporated community
associatedWithPresident Franklin D. Roosevelt NERFINISHED
associatedWithProgram Subsistence Homesteads Program NERFINISHED
championedBy Eleanor Roosevelt NERFINISHED
country United States of America
surface form: United States
designedAs model community
developedDuring New Deal NERFINISHED
federalAgencyInvolved Resettlement Administration NERFINISHED
Subsistence Homesteads Division NERFINISHED
governingBody Arthurdale Heritage, Inc. NERFINISHED
hasArchitectureStyle Cape Cod-style houses
Colonial Revival NERFINISHED
hasAreaCode 304
681
hasCommunityOrganization Arthurdale Heritage, Inc. NERFINISHED
hasCoordinateLatitude 39.495
hasCoordinateLongitude -79.815
hasEducationalInstitution Arthurdale School NERFINISHED
hasFeature community center
cooperative store
craft workshops
small farms
hasHeritageDesignation historic district
hasMuseum Arthurdale Heritage Center NERFINISHED
hasPopulationCensus2010 765
hasRoadAccessVia West Virginia Route 92 NERFINISHED
inception 1933
listedOn National Register of Historic Places
locatedIn Appalachia NERFINISHED
Preston County, West Virginia NERFINISHED
West Virginia NERFINISHED
locatedInTimeZone Eastern Time Zone
namedAfter Richard Arthur NERFINISHED
near Morgantown, West Virginia NERFINISHED
NRHPListingYear 1989
originalPurpose relocation site for impoverished families
subsistence homestead community
partOf United States federal homestead program NERFINISHED
postalCode 26520
preserves Appalachian homestead culture
New Deal history
significantPeriod 1930s
visitedBy Eleanor Roosevelt NERFINISHED

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Preston County, West Virginia contains Arthurdale, West Virginia