{"nrhp_refnum":"93000771","name":"Lamesa Farm Workers Community Historic District","other_names":["Lamesa Farm Labor Supply Center"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Jct. of US 87 and US 180","address_restricted":false,"city":"Los Ybanez","county":"Dawson County","state":"TX","lat":32.71872877250007,"lon":-101.91806182826195,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1993-08-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Agriculture","Hispanic","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A district of about 50 acres roughly one and one-half miles southeast of Lamesa in Dawson County, Texas, now the community of Los Ybañez. It was built as a planned farm labor housing camp by the Farm Security Administration in the 1940s.","why_significant":"The camp is tied to federal efforts to improve housing and living standards for migrant and resident agricultural workers in the region. It offered amenities such as indoor plumbing, running water, and fire protection that were rare in migrant labor housing of the period. It also reflects wartime farm labor policy, including the bracero program, and local opposition to government involvement in grower-labor relations.","narrative":"Los Ybañez, southeast of Lamesa in Dawson County, Texas, began as a federally planned farm labor camp built by the Farm Security Administration in the 1940s. About 50 acres hold frame buildings arranged around an oval road: a community center, gate house, manager's house, 25 single-family farm labor houses, and 25 quadruplex shelters for migrant families. Of the original buildings, 43 survive, and 32 are counted as contributing. The camp was far better than typical migrant housing of its time, with its own water and fire protection, gas and electric service, and indoor plumbing in every shelter. Its story also covers wartime labor shortages, the bracero program, and local resistance to federal involvement in farm labor. After World War II the government turned the camp over to a local nonprofit group. Many buildings have since been altered, with enclosed porches and reconfigured windows, but the plan and character of the camp remain recognizable.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"No style","criteria":[],"status_note":"Now a private residential community; 32 of the 47 resources contribute. Many original buildings have been altered, and some are vacant and deteriorating. The former gate house serves as the Los Ybañez City Hall.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:23.811292-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/80/9717/40971780/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/93000771.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000771/1324fc800f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000771/1324fc800f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 4.0","author":"Larry D. Moore","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lamesa_Farm_Workers_Community_2018.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Larry D. Moore</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lamesa_Farm_Workers_Community_2018.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40971780","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamesa_Farm_Workers_Community_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55616531"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/dawson-county/lamesa-farm-workers-community-historic-district-93000771/"}