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Listen: The Blues ProgramAfrican American men loading a wagon in a field at Cherry Lake Rural Rehabilitation Community - Cherry Lake, Florida
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Federal aid to community development--Florida--Madison County--Cherry Lake
Macon (Fla.)
Fernandina (Fla.)
Men--Florida--Madison County--Cherry Lake
Farms--Florida--Madison County--Cherry Lake
Farm workers--Florida--Madison County--Cherry Lake
African Americans--Florida--Madison County--Cherry Lake
Labor--Florida--Madison County--Cherry Lake
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Cherry Lake Farm (also known as Cherry Rural Rehabilitation Project) was a New Deal rural relief program initiated by the FERA and the Resettlement Administration (RA) and implemented by the WPA. The project involved moving 500 needy families from Tampa, Miami, and Jacksonville onto a 15,000-acre communal tract. The workers formed the cooperatively-owned Cherry Lake Farms (headquartered in the 1839 former plantation home, the Hinton House) and constructed a school, an auditorium, a coop store, barracks, a lumber yard, and a mill. Families lived in 170 cottages with phones, electricity, and running water?all furnished by jointly-owned utilities.
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