Photographs of Relocation of Residents from Camp Croft Area
"When the United States War Department decided to build Camp Croft, it had to relocate hundreds of families from the area. The Farm Security Administration built the families new pre-fabricated houses in Pacolet. In spite of the poverty and poor housing conditions in which most of the families lived, many were reluctant to give up their homes or the land they had tilled as sharcroppers or tenant farmers. As part of its ongoing effort to record the history of the United States during its periods of crisis (the Great Depression and World War II), the Farm Security Administration sent one of its photographers, Jack Delano, to Spartanburg to photograph the resettlement."
--from Seeing Spartanburg, by Philip N. Racine,
publ. by the Hub City Writers Project: Spartanburg, 1999
The following photographs are held by the Library of Congress. Larger versions are available through them at www.memory.loc.gov
They are part of the American Memory Project's Depression Era to World War II ~ FSA/OWI ~ Photographs ~ 1935-1945 Collection.
The descriptions are directly taken from the Library of Congress' catalog record.
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Family moving out of the Camp Croft area. Near Whitestone, South Carolina |
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Negro youngsters watching the construction of the prefabricated houses built by the FSA (Farm Security Administration) for farmers moved out of the Camp Croft area. Near Pacolet, South Carolina |
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Relatives of the aged Harvey sisters who have come to help them move out of their home in the Camp Croft area. Near Whitestone, South Carolina |
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Mrs. L.A. Anderson, living in the Camp Croft area, who has come to help a neighbor move. Near Spartanburg, South Carolina |
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Tenant family who lived in the Camp Croft area and had to move out. The man was employed working for a neighboring fam and would lose his job when he moved. Near Pacolet, South Carolina |
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Boys living in the Camp Croft area waiting for the truck to come and move their families out near Whitestone, South Carolina |
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Cow watching her owners move into their new prefabricated house from the Camp Croft area. Pacolet, South Carolina |
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Mrs. Harvey. One of the many people who are moving out of the Camp Croft area to make room for the expansion of the camp. Near Whitestone, South Carolina |
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Belongings of a Negro farmer set out on the porch to be moved out of the Camp Croft army camp area. Near Spartanburg, South Carolina |
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Mrs. Harvey who lost her husband in the last war is having to move out of her home in the Camp Croft area. She had been living there with a sister and a young nephew. Near Whitestone, South Carolina |
