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Forest Improvements and CCC Camps – Shawnee National Forest IL

Project type: Parks and Recreation
Agency: 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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Location Info

Shawnee National Forest
IL

Location notes: Harrisburg, Illinois is the nearest city.

Coordinates: 37.5426785, -88.40160409999999

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