- City:
- St. Thomas, VIRGIN-ISLANDS
- Site Type:
- Forestry and Agriculture, CCC Camps
- New Deal Agencies:
- Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Work Relief Programs
- Quality of Information:
- Minimal
- Site Survival:
- Unknown
Description
The CCC built camp facilities near Lindbergh Bay in St. Thomas. The Annual Report of the Governor of the Virgin Islands for 1938 describes the CCC’s effort to expand enrollment and camp facilities across the islands: “The senior camp in St. Thomas has maintained an enrollment of approximately 75 persons, and the junior camps in St. Thomas and St. Croix have maintained their authorized enrollment of 100 men each. In the next fiscal year it is proposed to increase the enrollment of the St. Croix camp from 100 to 150 men”
In 1939, the Lindbergh Bay camp moved to make way for a Marine Corps airfield: “The present site of the C. C. C. Camp at Lindbergh Bay has been transferred to the United States Navy Department for use in connection with the development of the Marine Corps aviation field. A new camp site has been made available and the transfer of buildings and the construction of new buildings is now in progress.”
Source notes
U.S. Department of the Interior, Annual Report of the Governor of the Virgin Islands for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1938, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1938, p. 20. U.S. Department of the Interior, Annual Report of the Governor of the Virgin Islands for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1939, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1939, p. 22. Territorial Projects, (https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/ccc/cccac1.htm), accessed May 10, 2017. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 55.3.5Site originally submitted by Brent Mckee on May 10, 2017.
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