Hard Work and a Good Deal:The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in Minnesota by Barbara W. Sommer presented July 25th, 2012 at the Olmsted County Fairgrounds in Rochester Minnesota as part of the Wasi Oju Lecture series

1. Hard Work and
a Good Deal:
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
in
Minnesota
Barbara W. Sommer

2. Unemployed men, Gateway Park,
Minneapolis, 1933 (MHS photo)

3. Demonstration for jobs and food in Minneapolis.
April 1937. (MHS photo)

4. Rochester Street Scene, 1934
MHS Photo

5. Rochester Street Scene, 1937
MHS Photo

6. Rochester, 1939
MHS photo

8. Eddie Brousseau Map of CCC Camps in the United States
State of Florida CCC Museum
Highlands Hammock State Park

10. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rochester, MN,
August 1934 (MHS Photo)

11. CCC Director Robert Fechner with Department of Conservation Forest Director
Grover Conzet and Parks Director Harold Lathrop, June 1939 (MHS Photo)

12. General David Stone, Minnesota CCC Commander (3rd from left),
1937 (MHS photo)

13. Rochester Sub-District, 1934

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. Houston (Hokah), SCS-4, Company 4738, ca.
1937
MHS photo

18. Waterville, SCS-10, ca. 1937
MHS photo

19. Lanesboro, SCS-7, Company 706, 1939
MHS photo

20. Plainview, SCS-13, Company 2709,
ca. 1940
MHS photo

21. Company 1774-V, Rochester, 1934

22. Camp PE-93, Rochester, 1934

23. Tent camp, CCC
(IRRC photo)

24. Barracks inspection
IRRC photo

25. Mess Hall
IRRC photo

26. SE MN junior enrollees
MHS photo

27. Whitewater State Park CCC camp, 1934

28. Company 1774-V at Bayport, 1940
MHS photo

30. (USDA Soil Conservation Service)

31. Float in parade, Wykoff, MN, 1937
(MHS photo)

32. Abandoned farm, possibly near Breckinridge
July 1936 (MHS photo)

33. Farm near Red Wing, 1940
MHS photo

34. Southeastern Minnesota, 1940
MHS photo

35. Pine trees planted to prevent further erosion, 1937
MHS photo

36. Erosion dam, Chatfield (Little
Sahara) Camp (IRRC photo)

37. Erosion dam (IRRC photo)

38. Limestone quarry, SE Minnesota
(IRRC photo)

39. Whitewater State Park enrollees, 1934-35
Minnesota Historical Society photo

41. Preparing the land for soil conservation work,
Gilmore Creek area (SCS photo)

42. Contour farming near Faribault, 1938
MHS photo

43. Conservation practices, farm near Wabasha, 1940
MHS photo

44. Soil conservation, southeastern Minnesota (MHS
photo)

45. Veterans camp reading room,
Bayport Camp (MHS photo)

46. Temperance River CCC camp, Tofte, January 1934
MHS photo
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48. Consolidated Chippewa work crew,
probably Nett Lake 1938
(MHS photo)

49. Grand Portage CCC-ID enrollees
(MHS photo)

50. Grand Portage CCC-ID camp recreation hall, 1937
MHS photo

51. Planting trees on slope, Nett Lake
CCC-ID Camp
National Archives photo

52. Grand Portage enrollees at work on building at Grand
Portage National Monument, 1938-9
(MHS photo)

54. Camp Rabideau, awarded National Historic Landmark
status, 2006 (MHS photo)

55. 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/