When Superintendent George B. Walker arrived in 1910, he built a two-room combination office and living quarters. When he married the following year, the Walkers had no kitchen and ate their meals in the home of the farm foreman and his wife. They soon added a piano box to use as a pantry and added a tent to be used as a kitchen. The next year, two additional rooms were to the house were added.
In 1920, funds were allocated by the State Legislature to make permanent physical improvements to the Delta Station. Work began on rearranging the old buildings and landscaping to make the Stoneville campus more attractive and comfortable for employees. A modern new residence “in keeping with the best plantation homes” was built for the superintendent in 1922. Three new cabins were added, and renovations to existing cabins were made, concrete walks were added, and fencing was increased. In the mid-1920s, the gin and seed storage facility was constructed. A new residence for the farm foreman was also built.
-100 Years of Agricultural Research, The Delta Branch Experiment Station (2004)
