The earliest relief efforts in the coal camps were privately funded, but in May 1933 Congress passed the National Industrial Recovery Act as part of the First Hundred Days legislation, including funds for the subsistence homestead program through the Department of the Interior. Subsistence farming combined with part-time industrial employment and handicrafts was intended to support families devastated by the Depression, and Eleanor Roosevelt, a chief supporter of these programs, often visited West Virginia to attend events and meet with families. Tygart Valley Homesteads at Dailey, East Dailey, and Valley Bend were built in 1934-35 for workers laid off from local mining and lumbering jobs, with successful applicants selected as homesteaders who worked for credit toward their homes and for actual pay. A new school was constructed and still serves as an elementary school, several structures remain in Dailey including a trade center, store, post office, and fire department, and most homes are in Valley Bend. At the end of the project, Tygart Valley repaid the initial loans in full to the U.S. government and also realized a profit from the sale of the lumber mill, and the community remains largely intact today, with descendants of many homesteaders still living there although infill homes have been added on the once 2-3 acre homesteads.