Title	Vet Village : the "Little MTSC City"
Publisher	Middle Tennessee State College
Date	1955
Coverage	1950-1959
Description	Vet Village, housing for families of veterans and married students; image from the Midlander yearbook, 1955
Contextual note	Vet Village was organized immediately after World War II to accommodate veterans and their families who were attending school. Attempting to meet housing needs, in 1946 Congress gave $78 million to move buildings from military bases to college campuses. Middle Tennessee State College also received federal funds to erect small apartments for married veterans and their families. Later, not only veterans but anyone could live in the apartments and trailers that made up Vet Village as long as at least one member of the family attended the college. Vet Village was practically a city within the campus; it had a laundry house, grocery store, and even a mayor.
Subject-LCSH	Veterans--Housing Middle Tennessee State College
Geographic Location	Murfreesboro, TN
Type	Image
Format	image/jpeg
Copyright status	Copyright protected. Reproduced with permission of the University
Conditions for use	Reproduction is permitted for non-profit educational and research purposes only Credit to Special Collections, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University
Call Number	378.768 M58m 1955
Contributing Institution	Special Collections, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University
Digital Publisher	Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University
Date created	2009-08-20