User:JGRAVES41/ELLA RANSOM HOMES

The "Ella Ransom Homes", just outside of Tullahoma, Tennessee, USA, were long rows of side-by-side, single-occupancy units, constructed of white-painted cinder blocks, substantially built, but apparently in a rush, to house staff and civilian employees of Camp Forrest during WWII. Camp Forest served as a infantry, paratrooper and mobile armor training ground and held Nazi P.O.W. war criminals until after the war. By war's end the exterior paint had peeled, leaving many gray spots. In front of each unit, matted yellow grass was disheveled and abandonded. Neither exterior nor interior had any soft, decorative features. Each unit had a front, center door with a window on either side. Interiors were Spartan, with a concrete stall shower with a heavy muslin curtain in place of door, a large, black coal stove for heating and cooking, a bed, table and 2 chairs. Floors were smooth cold, concrete, painted a shiny gray. No carpeting was provided. Ella Ransom Homes, located on the outskirts of Tullahoma, was surrounded by many gullies and ravines, some very steep, deep and eroded by rushing streams. To walk into Tullahoma for shopping of a movie residents had to cross these gullies on wooden bridges. By November, 1945 Camp Forrest being dismantled and moth-balled, thus sealing the fate of the Ella Ransom homes.

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