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Expansion[edit]

This page cries out for expansion... Arthurdale was the first New Deal planned community. http://www.arthurdaleheritage.org/

Jafafa Hots 03:23, 17 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

But it failed. Possibly there should be a page on failed utopias. Valetude (talk) 20:58, 15 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

There should be more of a talk as to whether or not this community failed. The 2018 book The Climb from Salt Lick by Nancy L. Abrams contains a chapter which has interviews residents in the 1980s during a 50 year anniversary that makes strong arguments that the community was not a failure at all, rather within a generation it had uplifted dozens of families from poverty to middle class. Hardly a Utopia, but in the anti-communist era of the United States it was scrutinized especially hard and only from economic and political points of view. To call it a failure ignores the accounts of the people who lived there. ([User:Benbr14|Benbr14]) ([{User talk:benbr14|talk]]) 21:58, 11 March 2021 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by • contribs)

Compare it to another legendary failure, the Ford Edsel. No doubt, the huge investment in this doomed model would have provided a lot of useful technical apprenticeships and management training. (“It’s an ill wind…”) But under the test, it proved a failure. You don’t see many Edsels around today. Or many Arthurdales. Valetude (talk) 04:14, 13 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

WVU Edit-a-Thon edits[edit]

For the 2023 WVU Wikipedia edit-a-thon I will be adding new information and cleaning up the current information without changing the meaning of the article. BethDempsey5 (talk) 15:11, 30 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]