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01 Aug

Eleanor Roosevelt traveled to coal camps in northern West Virginia

Arthurdale, located in Preston County west of Kingwood, was the first of many experimental communities founded under the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933. The act authorized $25 million in federal funds to create subsistence homesteads in ...

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