Suburban DFW's Forgotten New Deal Colony Part 2
[You can find Part 1 here and I fibbed there's a third part coming. Photos of DWG subsistence farmstead in both posts all courtesy of the Library of Congress.] As we left off yesterday Dalworthington Gardens, Texas looked to be on the ropes a bare year into its founding as a New Deal planned farm community. But slowly and stubbornly those 26 remaining families hung on and through their own self-organization and tighter administration from New Deal entities conditions start shifting from god-awful to livable. In 1935 the overstretched administration of the program (it's running similar colonies of varying scales all throughout the country such as this beautifully-documented one outside Dayton, Ohio ) is shifted to the newly-created Resettlement Administration headed by the magnificently-named Rexford G. Tugwell. The shift in program administration accidentally and narrowly saves both the national program and Dalworthington Gardens as a few months later the Supreme