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Eleanor Celebrates "Homestead Days"
Posted Saturday, June 13, 2009 ; 08:17 PM | View Comments | Post Comment
Updated Saturday, June 13, 2009 ; 08:32 PM

Organizers hope to make it an annual event.

Story by Gil McClanahan
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Eleanor -- Homestead Days in Eleanor is in full swing -- celebrating the 75th anniversary of the original Homestead creating the town.

Several activities are taking place all weekend throughout the town to commemorate the milestone.

Eleanor Roosevelt set up a homestead there in the 1930's where families could re-locate and get a fresh start during the Great Depression.

The town celebrated the 60th, 70th and now the 75th anniversary -- hoping to make Homestead Days an annual event. Eleanor was one of eight homesteads set up by Eleanor Roosevelt across the nation...and one of two in West Virginia.

Homestead Days ends tomorrow afternoon.

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Deb Miller
7/21/09 at 4:05 PM		 Report Abuse
There were 3 subsistence homestead communities in West Virginia -- Eleanor, Tygarts Valley project in Randolph County, and Arthurdale in Preston County. Arthurdale was the nation's first New Deal subsistence homestead community begun after Mrs. Roosevelt toured a number of coal towns in Monongalia County where squalid conditions were the norm. Her acitivist spirt led to those projects and homes -- a total of 99 nationwide. Arthurdale has recently celebrated its 75th anniversary of the founding of this experimental project also.
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