- City:
- St. Croix, VIRGIN-ISLANDS
- Site Type:
- Landscaping and Tree Planting, Parks and Recreation, Forestry and Agriculture
- New Deal Agencies:
- Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Work Relief Programs
- Started:
- 1937
- Completed:
- 1938
- Quality of Information:
- Minimal
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The CCC performed forestation work that included the “development of approximately 4,000 acres at the east end of St. Croix as a mahogany forest.”
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. 19.Site originally submitted by Brent McKee on May 19, 2017.
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