Completion Year: 1941

The CCC camp at Bandelier National Monument constructed and improved trails in and into Frijoles Canyon.  Out of necessity, this included clearing remains of previous archaeological work and stabilization of the numerous archaeological sites in the canyon.  There were some archaeological sites which were excavated by CCC men under direct supervision of trained archaeologists.  The trails enabled tourists to the canyon to walk to and through these sites.  Their work included a main loop trail amongst the pueblo ruins and extensive steps and ladders to “cavates” (dwellings carved out of the soft volcanic tuff in the canyon wall) as well...

In 1941, the Work Projects Administration (WPA) undertook a storm sewer construction project in the Rockaway Park neighborhood of Queens. One of six sewers was installed at Rockaway Beach Blvd from Beach 120th St to Beach 121st St.* According to The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, the other five sewers were located at “Beach 147th St. between Newport Ave. and Jamaica Bay, Beach 141st St. between Cronston Ave. and Beach Channel Drive, Beach 120th St. between Newport Ave. and Rockaway Beach Boulevard, an overflow arrangement at Beach Channel Drive and Beach 117th St., and Rockaway Beach Boulevard from Beach 117th to...

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Camp Baker (F-113) was established in April 1935 and closed in August 1941. It functioned under the direction of the US Army with project supervision by the US Forest Service. The enrollees worked primarily within the Whitman National Forest on forest management practices, construction and maintenance of roads and trails, stringing telephone lines, and conducting campground and range improvements. Camp Baker often supplied workers to side camps in the Whitman National Forest during the summer months and then CCC enrollees would return to Camp Baker for the winter. When Camp Baker prepared to close in 1941, the Baker...

To support the Civilian Conservation Corps' (CCC) work program in the Wallowa National Forest, administrative buildings were built at the end of the county's railroad line in Enterprise. In 1933, the solution to the administrative and logistical needs of the US Forest Service's CCC projects in the Wallowa National Forest (WNF) involved securing land of almost a city block near the Enterprise train depot. The land was donated by Wallowa County, the City of Wallowa and some of the leading local businessmen. On that site, they constructed warehousing, storage and shop facilities for the CCC projects. The following year, April 1934,...

From 1934 through 1941, with the exception of 1938, there was a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Camp Coverdale in Wallowa County during the summer months. The name Camp Coverdale (F-102), however, was applied to multiple locations. Although this is unusual, it reflects contemporary practices in the Wallowa National Forest (WNF). From the beginning of the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1933, regional representatives of the US Forest Service argued that the WNF's needs warranted two CCC camps for summer work. Due to the rugged terrain of the WNF and the significant need for road building through it, Forest Service administrators recommended that...

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Camp Hilgard was built during the summer of 1935 to serve as a winter camp for CCC enrollees that had worked on projects in the higher elevations of the Wallowa National Forest. From that time through 1941, Camp Hilgard (P-215) served as one of the largest and most significant of the CCC camps in northeastern Oregon. For the majority of that time, however, Camp Hilgard enrollees worked on forest management projects supervised by the Oregon State Forester designed to benefit private forest land. The local newspaper, The Observer, provided a summary of the enrollees' activities in 1938, noting:...

The National Youth Administration constructed the (now-former) warehouse and garage for the Loup River Public Power District at 1350 12th Ave. in Columbus, Nebraska in 1941. The facility is no longer in use by the power district, which relocated in 2020. The power district's quarterly newsletter for spring 2020 quoted an article from Columbus Telegram, March 29, 1941: Construction was started this week on the $35,000 garage, storehouse and machine shop of the Loup River Public Power district located at Twelfth avenue and Fourteenth street. Fifteen NYA youths are assigned to clearing and leveling the site, and excavation for the basement under the...

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Camp Elgin occupied an eight-acre site on the Weston-Elgin Highway just outside of Elgin from October 1939 to August 1941. During the majority of that time, the Elgin enrollees worked on forest management projects on private land. Elgin historian Bernal D. Hug, Sr. attributes a long list of accomplishments to these young “tree troopers,” recording the construction of a bridge at Minam, a guard station, and a number of roads and truck trails as well as stringing telephone line for forest management purposes. Because enrollees from other CCC camps near Elgin had worked on Union County projects...

In an area cleared once to serve the Civilian Conservation Camp (CCC) Coverdale's enrollees, today there are seven rustic campground sites. This relatively remote campground sits among tall Ponderosa and firs, on the banks of the Imnaha River in the Hells Canyon National Recreation Area. When the land was cleared for the CCC enrollees, the US Forest Service gained workers in what was then the Wallowa National Forest. Road building was a priority for this inaccessible area as were other forest management tasks such as stringing telephone line and establishing forest guard stations. Today's visitors benefit from this legacy as they...

Prado Dam outside Corona, CA was constructed between 1938-41 by the Army Corps of Engineers. The dam is located at the confluence of the Santa Ana River, Chico Creek, Cucamonga Creek, and Temescal Wash. Following devastating floods in the Los Angeles Area in the 1930s, initiatives for flood control projects were put forward. Although not in Los Angeles County, one of these project proposals was for Prado Dam, situated in Riverside County near the city of Corona. The Prado Dam project became of extreme importance after a devastating flood on March 3rd, 1938 when the Santa Ana River broke its...