This Is What Life In North Carolina Looked Like In 1935. WOW.
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Life in North Carolina was very different in 1935. The whole nation felt the impact of the Great Depression and many families were struggling to make ends meet. It was also a simpler time but that didn’t mean that simplicity came with a stable existence. There were abandoned mansions, children without shoes, families without supper on the table and hardworking famers trying to put their life back together.
A resettlement client gets ready for a day on the farm in Fuquay-Varina.
A blacksmith shop and the place of business, an old shed.
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A resettlement client poses for a picture on the front porch of her new home.
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The method for pressing sorghum cane.
Sharecroppers children sit and talk on the front porch.
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A farmer pours sorghum syrup into a barrel.
Another part of the process, cooking the sorghum syrup in a structure possibly built by the man in the photograph.
An abandoned colonial mansion sits quietly in Fuquay-Varina.
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A mill in Fuquay-Varina. Do any locals know if it still exists today?
A brand new tobacco barn built from funds advanced through the Resettlement Administration.
What a completely different time. What did you think of the images? Tell us in the comments!
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