Skyline Farms, originally called the Cumberland Farms Project, was one of largest of the 43 U.S. Resettlement Administration socioeconomic experiments. Of the 43 projects, 13 were built for African Americans. All were segregated. Each community offered new homes, jobs and social welfare opportunities to unemployed farmers devastated by the Great Depression. The Skyline Farms community included a new school, a store and a warehouse. Crops were, primarily, cotton and potatoes. This was a cooperative community, so farm equipment was shared among the 181 farms with land varying between 40 and 60 acres. The cooperative owned a store, a marketing association, a pre-paid health care program, and a pre-paid veterinary association, all of which were subsidized by the federal government.