McMillan Woods CCC camp explained

The McMillan Woods CCC camp was Civilian Conservation Corps camp NP-2[1] on the Gettysburg Battlefield planned in September 1933 https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xnAmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=SAAGAAAAIBAJ&dq=rebuilt%20marsh-creek%20dam&pg=6737%2C4743367 near CCC Camp Renaissance in Pitzer Woods (camp NP-1). Captain Francis J. Moran moved from Camp Renaissance to become the new camp NP-2 commander in October 1933[2] (supervisors under Superintendent Farrell included Charles Heilman in 1936,https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ToklAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ufIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1323,4060726&hl=en and Major Renn Lawrence was the 1937 CCC sub-district commander.)https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=I_ElAAAAIBAJ&sjid=tfwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1464,2720827&dq=harry-rothhaupt&hl=en The camp opened a new recreation hall in 1934 https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=OdIlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=bfwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=7024,2110310&dq=gettysburg+ccc+camp&hl=en and provided manpower for building the veterans camp for the 1938 Gettysburg reunion,[3] and about 50 enrollees of CCC Company

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served as aides for unaccompanied veterans.https://books.google.com/books?id=Ji64ZgxVuoMC&pg=PA152 During the reunion, Company F of the 34th Infantry used the CCC camp and had a headquarters office under Major C. Gilchrist (executive officer of the "regular army camp")[4] and Capt. E. E. Wright.https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=igcmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3fwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5535,1840999&dq=ccc-camp+gettysburg&hl=en Captain Frederick L. Slade was the CCC commander on April 1, 1939.https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GygzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=bQAGAAAAIBAJ&pg=6883,4969815&dq=gettysburg+ccc+camp&hl=en

In 1939, the McMillan Woods CCC camp became the 1st under an "all colored staff" when the white supervisory personnel transferred to the Blue Knob CCC camphttps://news.google.com/newspapers?id=0Q8mAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Df0FAAAAIBAJ&pg=1562,2814142&dq=blue-knob+gettysburg+1933&hl=en (the camp's singing quartet made public appearances in 1939.)https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=0SMmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=A_0FAAAAIBAJ&dq=dale-starry-and-his-string-band&pg=4714%2C1751441 The camp worked on Jones Battalion avenue and constructed a new walkway on Big Round Top.[5] The commander in 1940 was Captain Webb, and in March 1942, the McMillan Woods CCC camp was to be abandoned https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1dclAAAAIBAJ&sjid=PfwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6194,5940654&dq=ccc-camp+gettysburg&hl=en (the facility became the 1944-5 World War II POW camp at Gettysburg.)

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Camp Information for NP-2-PA . https://archive.today/20121225114906/http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/stateparks/ccc/Camp.aspx?ID=142 . dead . December 25, 2012 . Pennsylvania CCC Archive . Department of Conservation and Natural Resources . 2010-02-01.
  2. News: Davis . James E. . October 7, 1933 . Gettysburg C.C.C. Camp Men Get Four Days' Leave . Google News Archive . Baltimore Afro-American . 2011-11-07.
  3. Web site: Nagle . George F . Research Project-CCC Camps . Afrolumens.org . 2010-06-01 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070922232520/http://www.afrolumens.org/ccccamps.htm . 2007-09-22 .
  4. News: August 10, 1938 . Last Army Officers Leave . Google News Archive . Times and News Publishing Company . . 2011-12-06.
  5. News: July 13, 1940 . New Stone Walk Helps Climb On Big Round Top . Google News Archive . The Star and Sentinel . 2011-06-07 . new walk nearly completed by C.C.C. enrollees on the steep slopes of Big Round Top … C.C.C. enrollees also are at work on the Jones Battalion avenue east of the Harrisburg road about a mile north of Gettysburg.