Arthurdale, West Virginia

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Arthurdale, West Virginia, is a historic New Deal-era planned community established in the 1930s as a homestead project championed by Eleanor Roosevelt.

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instanceOf New Deal homestead project
census-designated place
planned community
unincorporated community
associatedWithPresident Franklin D. Roosevelt
associatedWithProgram Subsistence Homesteads Program
championedBy Eleanor Roosevelt
country United States
designedAs model community
developedDuring New Deal
federalAgencyInvolved Resettlement Administration
Subsistence Homesteads Division
governingBody Arthurdale Heritage, Inc.
hasArchitectureStyle Cape Cod-style houses
Colonial Revival
hasAreaCode 304
681
hasCommunityOrganization Arthurdale Heritage, Inc.
hasCoordinateLatitude 39.495
hasCoordinateLongitude -79.815
hasEducationalInstitution Arthurdale School
hasFeature community center
cooperative store
craft workshops
small farms
hasHeritageDesignation historic district
hasMuseum Arthurdale Heritage Center
hasPopulationCensus2010 765
hasRoadAccessVia West Virginia Route 92
inception 1933
listedOn National Register of Historic Places
locatedIn Appalachia
Preston County, West Virginia
West Virginia
locatedInTimeZone Eastern Time Zone
namedAfter Richard Arthur
near Morgantown, West Virginia
NRHPListingYear 1989
originalPurpose relocation site for impoverished families
subsistence homestead community
partOf United States federal homestead program
postalCode 26520
preserves Appalachian homestead culture
New Deal history
significantPeriod 1930s
visitedBy Eleanor Roosevelt

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Preston County, West Virginia contains Arthurdale, West Virginia