University of Wyoming Recreation Camp (demolished): Laboratory Building – Centennial WY

City:
Centennial, WY

Site Type:
Education and Health, Parks and Recreation, Colleges and Universities, Campgrounds and Cabins

New Deal Agencies:
Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Quality of Information:
Minimal

Site Survival:
No Longer Extant

Description

The Works Progress Administration constructed a university laboratory building 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 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.

Location Info


Mullen Creek
Centennial, WY Albany County

Location notes: General location marker

Coordinates: 41.306208, -106.14993

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