Mattox Family Home in Greenfield Village, September 2007

Amos and Grace Mattox--descended from enslaved African Americans--raised several children in this rural Georgia farmhouse during the 1930s. The house--now located in Greenfield Village--is furnished to depict life during the Great Depression when hard work and determination were needed to survive. Like others in the rural South, the resourceful family covered the walls with newspaper for both insulation and decoration.