- City:
- Cheyenne, WY
- Site Type:
- Civic Facilities, Parks and Recreation, Infrastructure and Utilities, Forestry and Agriculture, Gardens and Nurseries, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels, Flood and Erosion Control, CCC Camps
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
- Started:
- 1935
Description
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) worked to improve what is now the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s High Plains Grasslands Research Station (then Cheyenne Horticultural Field Station), located northwest of Cheyenne, Wyoming.
USDA.gov:
“1935 – Many inprovements were made to the station; the main road was oiled from the entrance to the buildings.
Civilian Conservation Corps camp of 200 men opened on station. They constructed roads, 2 miles of concrete lined ditches, irrigation system, planted thousands of trees and shrubs. They picked up hundreds of tons of stones from the experimental plots. And manure collected from nearby ranches was hauled in and spread over a 100 acres.”
Source notes
https://www.ars.usda.gov/Research/docs.htm?docid=17957Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on March 18, 2015.
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