Penn-Craft
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.
Marker is at the intersection of Penncraft Road and Penncraft Circle 2, on the right when traveling east on Penncraft Road.
Courtesy hmdb.org
