- City:
- Mineral Wells, TX
- Site Type:
- Military and Public Safety
- New Deal Agencies:
- Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1933
- Completed:
- 1940
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Company 1811 arrived in Mineral Wells in June 1933 to begin work on project SP-8, a state park that never was completed and transferred to the state. The company divided its time between the park and improvements to facilities at nearby Camp Wolters. The CCC built several rock buildings at Camp Wolters, of which only one survives according to the interpretive sign near the building. The company left Mineral Wells in January 1934.
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was active at the camp from 1938 to 1940. The most visible remnant of the WPA work is the entry gate to the camp off of U.S. Highway 180.
Camp Wolters was renamed Fort Wolters in 1963. The base was deactivated in 1973. The site is now used as an industrial park. The Texas Army National Guard and Civil Air Patrol have training facilities at Fort Wolters.
Source notes
Steely, James Wright. "Parks for Texas: Enduring Landscapes of the New Deal". University of Texas Press, 1st edition, 1999, p218.
Signs and plaques at site.
Fort Wolters:
(https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qbf53), accessed June 25, 2018.
Site originally submitted by Larry Moore on June 25, 2018.
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