During the Great Depression, shanty towns, also known as "Hoovervilles," began to sprout up across the US. Named after President Herbert Hoover, they were made up of scraps of wood, tin, tar, and ...

Nearly a century ago, when the Great Depression descended on New York in 1929, Gotham, like cities around the country, sprouted Hoovervilles, homeless encampments. In New York, a dozen or so were in ...

Amherst Historical Society will host the Experiencing 1930s “Hooverville” event from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 7 at Sandstone Village, 736 Milan Ave. in Amherst. Focused on life in the 1930s, the ...

The reenactment of “Hooverville,” hosted by the Amherst Historical Society on Sept. 6, gave visitors a taste of what it was like during the Great Depression in the 1930’s. For the third year in a row, ...

Students take part in the 7th annual Hooverville event at J.P. McCaskey High School on Monday, November 24, 2019. The Hooverville at McCaskey teaches students about the shanty towns that popped up ...

Charles Gibson pushes a shopping cart toward his soggy tent on a tenuous patch of a grassy drainage ditch along a bike trail in Santa Rosa, Calif. He's one of nearly 200 people living in a sprawling ...

In Mr. Renfer’s English class the sixth grade students read the classic, Bud, Not Buddy, a story of an orphaned boy at the time of the Great Depression. During the Great Depression, many families lost ...

Charles Gibson pushes a shopping cart towards his soggy tent on a tenuous patch of a grassy drainage ditch along a bike trail in Santa Rosa, Calif. He's one of nearly 200 people living in a sprawling ...