JACKSON PROJECT
Hermantown's Jackson Project was a part of Franklin D. Roosevelt's plan to bring the country back from the depression that gripped the nation. The Jackson Project is one of the most successful of the approximately 100 subsistence communities that the government financed. Building of the 83 homes began in June of 1936. All but one of them still exist. The Hermantown Historical Society published a book dedicated to the project, the people who built it and the people who settled it.
Some Jackson Project homes.