Civilian Conservation Corps Company (CCC) panoramic photograph, featuring group portrait of enrollees and cooks posed before health care facilities in summer.
Alfred (Irv) Nelson discusses his work with Company 708 of the Civilian Conservation Corps located at Rabideau Lake, South of Blackduck in Beltrami County, Minnesota. He describes the camp and camp life, and the various work projects including road building, tree planting, firefighting and fire prevention.
Clarence Johnson talks about his work in the Civilian Conservation Corps. He describes the camp at Big Lake in Beltrami County, Minnesota and the various work assignments including fire prevention, firefighting, road building, tree planting, roadside cleanup and forest conservation.
Image of CCC building in Hovland, MN, that was still standing and used for storage by possibly both the highway department and the forest service until the 1990s. Rock walls and stairs from this camp can still be seen on the Arrowhead Trail in Hovland.
Image of CCC building in Hovland that was still standing until the 1990s shows a sign on the door that identifies the building as "Hovland Ranger Station."
Schroeder Area Historical Society, Schroeder, Minnesota
Date Created:
1999-08-05
Description:
The oral history of Kenneth Bonin describes his first visit to the North Shore of Lake Superior, Minnesota, and visit with his brother at a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp, World War II military service in the Pacific theater, building Edwin Lundie Cabins with Joe Pecore, work at Reserve Mining in Silver Bay, Minnesota, and Erie Mining, Taconite Harbor, Minnesota, home building, Schroeder, Minnesota, life, running Gunderson Resort, Schroeder, Minnesota.
