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,

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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/