The river’s edge was covered with shanty after shanty, build by gypsies who decided to stick around for a while.

Although the one room shanty wasn’t much to look at, it provided ice fisherman much needed shelter from the bitter wind.

Shanty towns sprung up in the area with most of the tattered shacks belonging to migrant workers.

Each dilapidated shanty was torn down and replaced with modern tiny houses that were in much better condition.

With so many poor sharecroppers in the area, each lean-to shanty on the farm was inhabited by a family.