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Penn-Craft was an experimental community for coal miners unemployed during the Depression, developed from 1937 to 1943 by the American Friends Service Committee. On the 200-acre tract, fifty families built their stone houses, a cooperative store, and a knitting factory. A model for other self-help projects elsewhere, Penn-Craft was a successful example of the back-to-the-land movement of the 1930s.
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Luzerne, Pennsylvania · United States
