Plum Bayou Homesteads

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Historic former New Deal Resettlement Administration planned community listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) as a historic district.

Built: 1935-1936
Architect: Farm Security Administration
Architectural style: Plain Traditional
Areas of significance: Agriculture; Social History
Area: 5,307 acres
Date added to NRHP: 6/5/1975
Other designations: U.S. Historic District

The former community of Plum Bayou (now called Wright) was a project of the Resettlement Administration, a New Deal program that relocated struggling urban and rural farming families to U.S. Government-owned planned communities. In this particular community, 180 farmsteads were built. Each family accepted by the program was given one 40-acre tract of land, which had a simple farmhouse built on it, and was expected to farm the land. There was also a cluster of community buildings located along the western edge of the settlement, including social spaces, a general store and a school for the families' children. At the time of this historic district's listing on the NRHP in 1975, about 50 of the original 180 farmhouses still existed, though more may have been demolished or moved elsewhere since then.