Weedpatch Camp [SEP] architect
. The FSA also provided help locating work. The first administrator of Weedpatch Camp was Tom Collins. 
Between April 1935 and December 1936, the federal government's New Deal Resettlement Administration (RA) had relocated many struggling rural and urban families to planned communities. Weedpatch Camp, however, was constructed by the Works Progress Administration. It was located on the outskirts of the small towns of Arvin and Weedpatch. The camp now is located in an unincorporated area of Kern County just south of Bakersfield. 
The camp originally consisted
"The Grapes of Wrath)" as "Weedpatch Camp". This camp was a government rescue center for distressed migrant workers fleeing the Oklahoma Dust Bowl, during the Great Depression. The camp still aids migrant workers.
The camp is south of Weedpatch on Sunset just off Weedpatch Hwy.
Demographics.
The 2010 United States Census reported that Weedpatch had a population of 2,658, with a median household income of $28,075 and just above 45.8% living at or below the poverty level. It is considered to have