- City:
- Centennial, WY
- Site Type:
- Campgrounds and Cabins, Education and Health, Parks and Recreation, Colleges and Universities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Quality of Information:
- Minimal
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
The Works Progress Administration built the university Main Hall east wing in Centennial, Albany County.
The camp had been founded near Mullen Creek in 1935 by a CCC camp (possibly F-36). The University of Wyoming later used the facility as a recreation camp. During WWII, the camp was used by the Army and Air Force.
The facility has been demolished. The former location and condition of this facility is unknown to the Living New Deal.
Source notes
National Archives Record Group 69-N
CCC Legacy: (https://www.ccclegacy.org/CCC_Camps_Wyoming.html), accessed April 6, 2018.
Forest Service: (https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5172968.pdf), accessed April 6, 2018.
University of Wyoming returning recreation camp to nature, Casper Star Tribune, Leah Todd, December 17, 2013: (https://trib.com/news/local/education/university-of-wyoming-returning-recreation-camp-to-nature/article_8399a5bc-5d3f-5cc0-a6fa-f1ce4303add1.html), accessed April 6, 2018.
Site originally submitted by Brent McKee on April 6, 2018.
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