1937
Construction of Arthurdale's 165 homesteads is completed
The last 40 houses, a group of stone-veneered homes begun during the summer of 1936, were finished in 1937. Their completion brought Arthurdale's three-phase homestead construction program to the 165 houses originally planned.
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SAH Archipedia, “Arthurdale”; e-WV, “Arthurdale”
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One of Forty Native Stone Houses Built in Home Project, Arthurdale, W. Va., ca. May 24, 1938
The photograph is dated circa May 24, 1938, about a year after the final houses were completed. It shows one of Arthurdale's 40 native-stone houses, not the construction work itself.
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