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FIGURE 1
Tracy Augur's plan for the resettlement of families displaced by Norris Reservoir,
1934. ( The Tennessee Planner )
town had three “focal points”: a community center, a construction camp
site, and a business center devoted to attracting future industry. A popula-
tion of 1,000-1,500 families was desired. The houses would be easy to
maintain and would make maximum use of electricity for heating and
cooking. 26 The town had a protective “greenbelt” around it and, consonant
with Roosevelt's rural-industrial ideas, would have a home instruction cen-
ter (offering classes in cooking, child care, budgeting, and furnishing), a
trades and engineering center (with instruction in auto mechanics, avia-
tion, plumbing, wrought iron work, and electrical and mechanical skills),
and, in the greenbelt, dairy and poultry farms where Norris workers could
engage in part-time agriculture. Workers would thus be educated to
become foremen and managers, to provide an agricultural-industrial basis
for everyday life, 27 to attract industry to balance the town's rural character,
and to enable residents to partake of a rural-industrial community, or what
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