Farmstead / Jasper, Alabama, this development, began by the WPA, included 40 homes, churches, a civic center, and a school. Arthurdale, West Virginia, (first community begun by Subsistence Homesteads and pet project of Eleanor Roosevelt) Cahaba Village in Trussville, Alabama (begun by the Works Progress Administration) Palmerdale in Pinson, Alabama (parts built by the Works Progress Administration) Jersey Homesteads (begun by the Division of Subsistence Homesteads) Cumberland Homesteads near Crossville, Tennessee (begun by the Division of Subsistence Homesteads) Christian-Trigg Farms near Hopkinsville, Kentucky (built by the RA and Farm Security Administration) Greenbelt, Maryland, completely planned and constructed by the RA outside Washington, D.C. Greendale, Wisconsin, another new town built by the RA, outside Milwaukee, Wisconsin Greenhills, Ohio, the third of the RA's new towns, built outside Cincinnati, Ohio Hickory Ridge, Virginia (now Prince William Forest Park) Caney Lakes Recreation Area in Webster Parish, Louisiana Greenbrook, New Jersey (planned by the RA but never built) Matanuska Valley Colony, Alaska (near what is now Palmer, Alaska) Aksarben, Nebraska Mileston, Mississippi, one of thirteen resettlement communities that were entirely African-American The Weedpatch Camp (also known as the Arvin Federal Government Camp and the Sunset Labor Camp), now on the National Register of Historic Places, was built in 1936 south of Bakersfield, California — not by the Resettlement Administration but by the Works Progress Administration. The camp inspired John Steinbeck's 1939 novel, The Grapes of Wrath. Photography, film, and folk song projects The RA also funded projects recording aspects of its work and context, including: The Photography Project, which documented the rural poverty of the Great Depression and produced thousands of images that are now stored and available at the Library of Congress, was headed up by Roy Stryker. The Film Project, which produced two documentaries directed by Pare Lorentz and scored by Virgil Thomson, The Plow That Broke the Plains and The River; Sidney Robertson Cowell's recordings of folk songs, conducted during the summer of 1937, sponsored by the RA's Special Skills Division, and now stored at the University of Wisconsin. See also Dust Bowl National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 Subsistence Homesteads Division References Citations Sources Meriam; Lewis. Relief and Social Security The Brookings Institution. 1946 (analysis and statistical summary of all the New Deal relief programs) External links Wisconsin Folksong Collection, 1937-1946. Presented by the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center and Mills Music Library Special Collections. Ohio History Central on