This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. As local officials move to shut down Occupy Wall Street encampments ...

Milwaukee's 'Hooverville' was located along the Milwaukee River near Lincoln Park in the 1930s. Various shanties are visible in the foreground with various buildings in the background.

Hoovervilles sprouted up across the US during the Great Depression. One in Central Park was also called "Hoover Valley" or "Forgotten Men's Gulch." ...

LOS ANGELES — As local officials shut down Occupy Wall Street encampments across the nation, the political impact of the demonstrations is likely to grow, if U.S. history is any guide. The sites ...

A census taken in March 1934 counted 632 men and 7 women, ages 15 to 73, living in 479 shacks along the tidal flat Hooverville. Of the population there, 72 percent of residents were white, with ...

Hoovervilles for a dark new day. JESSE McKINLEY The New york. Times. As the operations manager of an outreach center for the homeless here, Paul Stack is used to seeing people down on their luck.

What do Nashville, Olympia, Seattle, St. Petersburg, Fresno, and Sacramento have in common? Shanty towns. The New York Times reports that tent cities are cropping up across the nation as the ...

EphemeralNY points out that other Hoovervilles were set up along the Hudson in Riverside Park, 10th Street on the East River and in Red Hook off Columbia Street (also pictured in the above gallery).