Penn-Craft

Penn-Craft is a Pennsylvania historical marker in Fayette County, dedicated 1991.

Fayette County · dedicated 1991 · On Penncraft Rd. at Penncraft 02 (a.k.a. Circle 2) Rd., Luzerne Twp., off Rt. 166 W of Merrittstown

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This experimental community for coal miners unemployed during the Depression was developed, 1937-43, 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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Marker data: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission via data.pa.gov

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