- City:
- Petrified Forest National Monument, AZ
- Site Type:
- Federal Facilities, CCC Camps
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
- Started:
- 1933
- Completed:
- 1940
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) first arrived in Petrified Forest National Monument in 1933, setting up camp at Rio Puerco. There seems to have been a pause before a new company arrived in 1936 and another in 1938. The camp numbers were PNM-1 and 2 and one of the companies was #3342.
During their time in the Petrified Forest, the CCC enrollees built the Painted Desert Inn, two groups of ranger residences, the trail system, and a water pipeline, as well as paving and improving the park’s roads.
Petrified Forest became a National Park in 1962.
Source notes
History panels on the CCC in Petrified Forest at the Painted Desert Inn.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrified_Forest_National_Park
Site originally submitted by Richard Walker on April 30, 2022.
Additional contributions by Joan Greer.
At this Location:
- Painted Desert Inn: Construction - Petrified Forest National Park AZ
- Painted Desert Inn: Interior Decorations - Petrified Forest National Park AZ
- Ranger Residences - Petrified Forest National Park AZ
- Roads and Trails - Petrified Forest National Park AZ
- Rainbow Forest Residential Compound - Petrified Forest National Park AZ
- Painted Desert Inn: Water Supply - Petrified Forest National Park AZ
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