![]() Housing for the migrants consisted of either squatter camps (tents pitched by the side of a road) or camps established by the farmers and growers. They were joined by other migrant workers from, and. They migrated to California where they moved from farm to farm looking for work as farm laborers. ![]() ![]() Was especially hard hit by the drought and many of the farmers there left. Weedpatch Camp has its origins in the migrations during the drought that caused the in the mid-1930s. Several historic buildings at the camp were placed on the (NRHP) on January 22, 1996. ![]() Coordinates: Built 1936 Architect Architectural style 20th century vernacular NRHP reference # Added to NRHP JanuWeedpatch Camp (also known as the Arvin Federal Government Camp and the Sunset Labor Camp) was built by the (WPA) south of in 1936 to house migrant workers during the.
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