Some More on Wilmington's WWII Housing-- Part 2

The Wilmington Housing Authority had been founded in 1938, just before the federal government embarked on on a local building boom.

LAKE FOREST was built with federal funds in 1942 with 475 units reserved for defense workers. They were what is called demountable housing "wooden structures easy to disassemble and rebuilt elsewhere. Many of the units, however, are still there.

LAKE VILLAGE was a development of 472 prefabricated units, each 720 square feet. They were shipped to Wilmington by rail and assembled on fifty acres of land north and south of Greenfield Street.

--GreGen