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Hard Work and a Good Deal:
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in
Minnesota Barbara W. Sommer
Unemployed men, Gateway Park, Minneapolis, 1933 (MHS photo)
Demonstration for jobs and food in Minneapolis. April 1937. (MHS photo)
Rochester Street Scene, 1934 MHS Photo
Rochester Street Scene, 1937 MHS Photo
Rochester, 1939 MHS photo
Eddie Brousseau Map of CCC Camps in the United States State of Florida CCC Museum Highlands Hammock State Park
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rochester, MN, August 1934 (MHS Photo)
CCC Director Robert Fechner with Department of Conservation Forest Director Grover Conzet and Parks Director Harold Lathrop, June 1939 (MHS Photo)
General David Stone, Minnesota CCC Commander (3rd from left), 1937 (MHS photo)
Rochester Sub-District, 1934
Civilian Conservation Corps CCC SCS Camps in SE MN • Bayport, SCS-17 – 1939-1942 • Caledonia, SCS-2 – 1933, 1934, 1935-
1942 • Chatfield, SCS-14 – 1933, 1934, 1935-
1938 • Fillmore, SCS-1 – 1935-1939 • Houston, SCS-4 – 1933, 1934, 1935,
1936-7
Civilian Conservation Corps • Jordan, SCS-19 – 1940-1942 • Lake City, SCS-16 – 1933, 1934, 1935-
1941 • Lanesboro, SCS-7 – 1933, 1934, 1935-
1942 • Lewiston, SCS-11 – 1933, 1934, 1935-
1941 • Plainview, SCS-13 – 1934, 1935-1941
Civilian Conservation Corps • Red Wing, SCS-9 – 1933, 1934, 1935-
1940 • Rochester, SCS-12 – 1933, 1934, 1935-
1939 • Rollingstone, SCS-15 – 1935 • Waterville, SCS-10 – 1935-1940 • Winona, SCS-18 – 1933, 1939-1942 • Zumbrota, SCS-3 – 1935-1939
Houston (Hokah), SCS-4, Company 4738, ca. 1937
MHS photo
Waterville, SCS-10, ca. 1937 MHS photo
Lanesboro, SCS-7, Company 706, 1939 MHS photo
Plainview, SCS-13, Company 2709, ca. 1940
MHS photo
Company 1774-V, Rochester, 1934
Camp PE-93, Rochester, 1934
Tent camp, CCC (IRRC photo)
Barracks inspection IRRC photo
Mess Hall IRRC photo
SE MN junior enrollees MHS photo
Whitewater State Park CCC camp, 1934
Company 1774-V at Bayport, 1940 MHS photo
(USDA Soil Conservation Service)
Float in parade, Wykoff, MN, 1937 (MHS photo)
Abandoned farm, possibly near Breckinridge July 1936 (MHS photo)
Farm near Red Wing, 1940 MHS photo
Southeastern Minnesota, 1940 MHS photo
Pine trees planted to prevent further erosion, 1937 MHS photo
Erosion dam, Chatfield (Little Sahara) Camp (IRRC photo)
Erosion dam (IRRC photo)
Limestone quarry, SE Minnesota (IRRC photo)
Whitewater State Park enrollees, 1934-35 Minnesota Historical Society photo
Preparing the land for soil conservation work, Gilmore Creek area (SCS photo)
Contour farming near Faribault, 1938 MHS photo
Conservation practices, farm near Wabasha, 1940 MHS photo
Soil conservation, southeastern Minnesota (MHS photo)
Veterans camp reading room, Bayport Camp (MHS photo)
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Temperance River CCC camp, Tofte, January 1934 MHS photo
Consolidated Chippewa work crew, probably Nett Lake 1938
(MHS photo)
Grand Portage CCC-ID enrollees (MHS photo)
Grand Portage CCC-ID camp recreation hall, 1937 MHS photo
Planting trees on slope, Nett Lake CCC-ID Camp
National Archives photo
Grand Portage enrollees at work on building at Grand Portage National Monument, 1938-9
(MHS photo)
Camp Rabideau, awarded National Historic Landmark status, 2006 (MHS photo)
CCC Today
• Today programs in several states are carrying on the CCC tradition.
• Minnesota’s program is the Conservation Corps – Minnesota and Iowa (formerly Minnesota Conservation Corps)
• For more information, see: http://www.conservationcorps.org/
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