From Lot to Living Quarters

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Image courtesy of Sanborn Map Company, “Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Waco, McLennan County, Texas,” Image 27. Library of Congress, 1950, https://www.loc.gov/resource/g4034wm.g4034wm_g08803195002/?sp=27.
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The Farm Labor Camp stood on the corner of 3rd Street and Marlborough Avenue, not far from the banks of the Brazos.  Prior to the building of the camp in 1946, the empty lot acted as a space for laborers to park their vehicles and set up their own small camps while they worked in the Waco area.

This file appears in: Farm Labor Camp

By Maria Petrolia
The rapid rise of migrant labor in Texas in the 1940s brought large numbers of laborers to Waco. To accommodate this new situation, the city of Waco acquired funds to build the Waco Farm Labor Camp, a…