The National Archives at Fort Worth

Farmers Home Administration

Records Available at the National Archives at Fort Worth

 

Administrative History

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 the Subsistence Homesteads Division of the Department of the Interior and the Federal Emergency Relief Administration. 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.

 

The National Archives at Fort Worth holds records of the following regions:

 

Appendix I contains a listing of the projects for the series,"Resettlement Projects Records, 1936 - 1942."

Appendix II contains a list of counties in major farming areas, for which there are representative rural rehabilitation loan case files,"Rural Rehabilitation Loan Case Files, 1935 - 1944."

Records of Region 6 (Little Rock, Arkansas)

This region covered the states of Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana.

Series Title NARA ID Local Identifier
Farm Ownership Case Files, 1938 - 1946 720073 96NRF-1

 

Records of Region 8 (Dallas, Texas)

This region covered the states of Oklahoma (part), and Texas (part).

Series Title NARA ID Local Identifier
Director's General Correspondence, 1935 - 1942 720183 96NRF-2
Farm Ownership Case Files, 1938 - 1946 720184 96NRF-3
Resettlement Projects Records, 1936 - 1942 720186 96NRF-4

 

Records of Region 12 (Amarillo, Texas)

This region covered the states of Arizona (part), Colorado (part), Kansas (part), Texas (part), New Mexico (part), and Oklahoma (part)

Series Title NARA ID Local Identifier
Director's General Correspondence, 1935 - 1942 720187 96NRF-5
Rural Rehabilitation Loan Case Files, 1935 - 1944 720189 96NRF-6

 

Records of the Regional Agricultural Credit Corporation Dallas, Texas

Series Title NARA ID Local Identifier
Correspondence with the Loan Representative, 1943 - 1944 2575517 96NRF-7
Correspondence with the Board Representative, 1943 - 1945 2575522 96NRF-8

 

Appendix I

Listing of the projects for the series,"Resettlement Projects Records, 1936 - 1942."

OK 2               Muskogee (Cookson Hills Development Project)

OK 17             Muskogee (Eastern Oklahoma Farms)

OK 19             Bryan County Farms Project

TX 7                Bonham (Northeast Texas Land Utilization Project)

TX 10              Woodlake (National Youth Adm. Project)

TX 16              Delta County

TX 18              Wichita Falls (Wichita Valley Farms)

TX 19              Highlands (Sam Houston Farms)

TX 21              Bexar County area (Intercoastal Prairie Project)

TX 22              Sherman (Texas Farm Tenant Security Project)

TX 24              Marshall (Sabine Farms)

TX 25              Bonham (Fannin Farms)

TX 32              Raymondville Migratory Camp

TX 33              Robstown Migratory Camp

TX 34              Sinton Migratory Camp

TX 35              Weslaco Migratory Camp

TX 36              Harlingen Migratory Camp

TX 37              McAllen Migratory Camp

TX 38              Crystal City Migratory Camp

TX 39              Princeton Migratory Camp

TX 41              Lamesa Migratory Camp

TX 53              Ropesville Migratory Camp

TX 55              Mexia Migratory Camp

TX 56              Nacogdoches Migratory Camp

TX 57              McLennan County (McLennan Farms)

TX 58              Cochran County

 

Appendix II

List of counties in major farming areas, for which there are representative rural rehabilitation loan case files, "Rural Rehabilitation Loan Case Files, 1935 - 1944."

Arkansas

  •      Benton
  •      Lonoke
  •      Pulaski

Louisiana

  •  Assumption
  •  Avoyelles
  •  St. Helena

Oklahoma

  • Lincoln
  • Osage
  • Ottawa
  • Pittsburg

Texas

  • Brazoria
  • Dallas
  • Dawson
  • El Paso
  • Hamilton
  • Haskell
  • Jeff Davis
  • Kendall
  • La Salle
  • Leon
  • Nueces
  • Randall
  • San Jacinto
  • Throckmorton
  • Willacy
  • Wise

 

 

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