RG 96: Records of the Farmers Home Administration
Records Available at the National Archives at Fort Worth
Introduction
The Farmers Home Administration (FHA) was established in the Department of Agriculture by an act of August 14, 1946, to succeed the Farm Security Administration (FSA), which had been established in 1937. The FSA succeeded the Resettlement Administration, which had been established in 1935 to administer rural rehabilitation and land programs begun in 1933 under and the Federal Emergency Relief Administration the Subsistence Homesteads Division of the Department of the Interior.
The FHA provides small farmers with credit to construct or repair homes, improve farming operations, or become farm owners, and gives individual guidance in farm and home management.
Records of Region 6
Records of Region 8
Records of Region 12
Records of the Regional Agricultural Credit Corporation, Dallas, Texas
Appendix I
Project Records (Entry 96NRF-4)
Appendix II
List of Counties in Major Farming Areas among Rural Rehabilitation Loan Case Files (Entry 96NRF-6)