Project type: Parks and recreation
New Deal Agencies: Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
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Description
“CCC camps supervised by the Forest Service on the Shawnee National Forest were Camps Dry Hill, Kedron, Hutchins, Simpson, Eddyville, Cadiz, Hicks, Delta, Tamms, and Pomona (an all-black enrollee camp). Men from these camps were instrumental in the relief and clean up work required by the 1937 Ohio River flood disaster.”
Source notes
http://www.foresthistory.org/ASPNET/Publications/region/9/history/chap8.aspx
Project originally submitted by Erin TerBeek on October 3, 2012.
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