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Date added: January 6, 2015; Modified: May 22, 2022
Rose City Golf Course, constructed adjacent to a middle-class residential development in 1923, was the second public golf course in Portland and the state of Oregon. In 1937, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) redesigned the first nine-holes, rebuilding the greens… read more
Date added: February 19, 2013; Modified: May 19, 2022
The Hood River post office was constructed by the Treasury Department in 1934-1935. It is still in service. A historical marker attached to the post office reads: “From 1901 to 1935, the Hood River United States Post Office occupied the… read more
Date added: November 25, 2017; Modified: May 17, 2022
The National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form for the former Big Elk Guard Station (now a camping residence for seasonal rent) tells the history of the garage/storage shed located nearby: “A Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)-built Garage/Storage Shed, erected ca…. read more
Date added: February 21, 2022; Modified: May 17, 2022
CCC Camp Warrenton housed companies of Civilian Conservation Company (CCC) enrollees with a special mission. Although called upon occasionally to fight fires, their primary charge was stabilizing beaches along Clatsop County’s coastline. As reported by the Daily Astorian, the Columbia… read more
Date added: May 16, 2022
In 1939 the Works Progress Administration (WPA) constructed an athletic field at Portland’s Franklin High School as part of a larger commitment ($468,459) to the improvement of Portland public school properties.
Date added: January 5, 2015; Modified: May 16, 2022
From 1939 to 1942, Portland’s Franklin High School benefited from two different Works Progress Administration (WPA) initiatives. One of the projects allowed artists from the Federal Art Project, one of the five independent branches of the Works Progress Administration, to… read more
Date added: October 16, 2017; Modified: May 14, 2022
This former ranger station was erected in 1933 by the CCC and originally existed in Bridgeport, CA. It was later moved to Reese River Valley and remained active until the 1980s. After falling into neglect, a volunteer group of former… read more
Date added: January 20, 2022; Modified: May 11, 2022
After the establishment of the Civilian Conservation Corps’ (CCC) Camp Brice Creek in 1933, the enrollees undertook development of the Rujada Forest Camp. They constructed the forest camp to provide a recreation facility for visiting family, friends and local residents…. read more
Date added: December 27, 2021; Modified: May 10, 2022
With the provision of Public Works Administration (PWA) funding, the City of Marshfield, Oregon replaced its crowded, thirty-year-old high school in 1939-1940 on the same site. Local funds covered 55% of project costs. The New Deal era campus construction included… read more
Date added: May 5, 2022; Modified: May 5, 2022
Civilian Conservation Corps members provided the original improvements for this ocean-front park between 1934 and 1936. The improvements involved an access road, landscaping to protect the view, and a picnic area. Located approximately two miles south of Depot Bay OR,… read more
Date added: May 3, 2022; Modified: May 5, 2022
Acquired for state park use in 1935, the State Park plans for this beautiful stretch of coastline in Tillamook County initially focused on its use as an undeveloped, natural preserve. Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) enrollees built the first major improvement,… read more
Date added: May 7, 2012; Modified: May 1, 2022
The Tillamook Burn was a series of forest fires occurring at approximately six-year intervals between 1933 and 1951. The fires destroyed 355,000 acres of old growth timber in what is now the Tillamook State Forest. At the time of the… read more
Date added: April 27, 2022; Modified: May 1, 2022
From 1935 through May 1941, the area now occupied by the Trask River County Campground served as the site of Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Camp Trask. The enrollees stationed at the camp worked primarily on truck trail construction and other… read more
Date added: April 28, 2022; Modified: April 28, 2022
Once the site of CCC Camp Trask, the Trask River County Campground provides day and camping facilities on the northern bank of the Trask River. Tillamook County currently manages this recreational land, located approximately fifteen miles east of the City… read more
Date added: March 27, 2022; Modified: April 27, 2022
Neahkahnie Mountain rises almost perpendicularly, 1600 feet from the Pacific Ocean. This headland posed an engineering and budgetary challenge to the completion of the Oregon Coast Highway until funding was provided by the Bureau of Public Roads and labor was… read more