- City:
- Cucumber, War, WV
- Site Type:
- Forestry and Agriculture, CCC Camps
- New Deal Agencies:
- Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Work Relief Programs
- Started:
- 1935
- Completed:
- 1941
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
Located on private land about 5 miles east of War and on the edge of Cucumber (town, likely a coal camp at one point) in McDowell County along WV Route 16.
Occupied on 11 July 1935 with CCC Company 3538-C. The C at the end notes this was a colored CCC camp. McDowell county was a heavily black community noting several entries in the Negro Green Book for decades. This is the only black CCC Company to serve in West Virginia although they worked also at S-77 (Camp Carver/Panther State Forest) and S-76 (Camp Kanawha).
This camp worked on fire protection and forest fire fighting, construction and maintenance of truck trails, and maintenance of telephone lines.
Scheduled to be closed in 1 July 1941 the camp was operated until 8 November 1941 when the company was transferred to Camp Carver (S-77) at Panther State Forest.
Source notes
Milton Harr, The C.C.C. Camps in West Virginia 1933-1942, p. 21
USGS War Quad 1967
1940 Census Enumeration District Maps - West Virginia - McDowell County - ED 24-1 - ED 24-60 (https://catalog.archives.gov/id/5840990), accessed February 14, 2018.
Site originally submitted by Ernest Everett Blevins on February 15, 2018.
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