Air Compressor and Gang, Camp Cranberry, Cowen, W. Va.

Identifier:

047802

Collection Number:

3996

Title:

Air Compressor and Gang, Camp Cranberry, Cowen, W. Va.

Date:

ca. 1936

Description:

Initials of CCC workers pictured: "W.T.N., E.L., and R.B.". Camp Cranberry, Company 525 F-13 was part of the Civilian Conservation Corps efforts between 1933 and 1942. Enrollees were assigned forestry service jobs as well as road construction jobs and telephone line building. The camp was named after the nearby Cranberry River.

Subjects:

Camps--West Virginia., Counties--Webster.

Corporate Names:

Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.)

Geographic:

Cowen (W. Va.)

Acquisition Source:

Greathouse, Paul R.

Acquisition Method:

Gift

Medium:

digital file

Projects:

West Virginia History OnView