Civilian Conservation Corps - Sulpur, OK

Civilian Conservation Corps

 

From 1933 to 1940, the Civilian Conservation

 

Corps (CCC), a depression-era public works

 

program, put hundreds of unemployed young men to

 

work in our national parks. At this park they built

 

roads, bridges, campgrounds, trails, and planted

 

trees and shrubs. They erected enclosure walls

 

around Buffalo and Hillside springs and built

 

pavilions at Bromide and Pavilion Springs. To

 

created Swimming holes along Travertine Creek,

 

they built several small dams.

 

 

 

Corpsmen were paid $30 a month, $25 of which

 

went home to their families. Here in the park, the

 

men of CCC Company 808 built their camp just

 

east of the area known today as Walnut Grove.

 

 

 

Group photo (above) of

Company 808 at Platt National

Park, 1930s. The corpsmen

worked at Platt National Park

from 1933 to 1940

 

 

 

Front view (below) of CCC Camp 808 at Platt

 

National Park, 1930s. This area is now a popular

 

picnic site called Walnut Grove.

 

 

 

Chickasaw National Recreation Area

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