The Tygart Valley Homesteads, the third New Deal resettlement community in West Virginia, were established beginning in 1933 as part of the Federal Division of Subsistence Homesteads. Under this program, 198 homes were built in Dailey, East Dailey, and Valley Bend to provide a new way of life for West Virginians during the Great Depression. Homesteaders purchased a home and land and were given jobs within the project to help pay for them, with agriculture, textiles, and woodworking forming part of the community workforce alongside social and civic responsibilities. Disbanded in 1944, the Tygart Valley Association was the only project settlement in the nation to repay all its financial obligations to the U.S. government and also return additional profits from the sale of properties and businesses held by the Association. The Homestead School, still in use, the Trade Center and lumber mill, and the homes themselves remain today as reminders of the diligence and craftsmanship of the people who took this opportunity and made it succeed.