Depression Era Squatters: Outer Harbor
Arrows point to the land immediately fronting the harbor as the location of
the squatter shacks
shown in the photos below. Immediately behind the shacks was a sea wall; behind
that were
tracks of the Pennsylvania RR.
Squatter shack. Note railroad cars in background. In the distance are grain
elevators.
Another squatter shack with stovepipe installed. In the distance is the Dakota
elevator.
Some residents of the squatter neighborhood.
Unknown visitor standing amid trash dump. The 1930's settlement was demolished
by local authorities and the residents dispersed.