Weedpatch Camp, Cal.-- Part 2: Providing Hygiene, Running Water and Security to the Displaced

Because of lack of hygiene  and security, these type of camps were not acceptable, so the Farm Security Administration (FSA) built labor camps consisting of permanent buildings with running water, schools and libraries.  The FSA also provided help in finding work.  The first administrator of Weedpatch was Tom Collins.

Between April 1935 and December 1936, the Federal government's New Deal Resettlement Administration (RA)  had relocated many struggling  rural and urban families to planned communities.

Weedpatch camp, however, was constructed by the Works Progress Administration  (WPA).  It was located on the outskirts of the small towns of Arvin and Weedpatch.  The camp is now located in an unincorporated area of Kern County, south of Bakersfield.

--RoadDog