- City:
- Pocomoke City, MD
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Description
Pocomoke State Forest (which contains Pocomoke River State Park) consists of over 15,000 acres of “loblolly pine, mixed pine-hardwood, bottomland hardwood, and bald-cypress” trees, and offers opportunities for fishing, hunting, hiking, mountain biking, horseback riding, boating, canoeing, and camping.
According to the Maryland Department of Natural Resources: “In the mid to late 1930’s, two Civilian Conservation Camps were located on the Forest. The camp workers did considerable road and trail work, established boundary lines, provided for fire protection and suppression, planted trees and performed recreation improvements…”
Source notes
Maryland Department of Natural Resources, at https://dnr.maryland.gov/publiclands/eastern/pocomokeforest.asp, accessed December 3, 2012.Site originally submitted by Brent McKee - wpatoday.org on December 6, 2012.
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Jeffrey Pilchard
See the website below, for more information about the CCC camp near Milburn Landing.
My family’s farm is nearby. My grandfather was “Caretaker” of the CCC camp that was constructed in 1933 north of Route 13. The camp was not occupied year-round, so some maintenance was needed when it was not occupied. The concrete foundations of at least some of the camp buildings are, as far as I know, still extant–remains of some of the plumbing still existed in the 1970s.