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Camp Information for ANF-13-PA
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General Information

Camp Name: Bull Hill Opened: 7/1/1935
Camp Type: National Forest Closed: **/**/1941
Alternate Names: No Information

Location

MODERN INFORMATION
GPS DD Coordinates: Latitude: 41.6779
Longitude: -79.103983
Modern Directions: No Information
Current Landholder: Allegheny National Forest
HISTORIC INFORMATION
County: WARREN
Historic Directions: Northwest of Sheffield

Location of Closest
Post Office: Sheffield
Telephone: Sheffield
Express Mail: Sheffield
Telegraph: Sheffield
Railroad: Sheffield
Administrators
No Administrators listed for this Camp

Companies
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Company NumberDates Occupied
2319**/**/1935 to **/**/****


Camp Documents
TitleDocument Description
2319 History.pdf2319 history from 1936 CCC annual, courtesy of the James F. Justin Civilian Conservation Corps Museum, members.aol.com/famjustin/ccchis.html.
2319 Photos.pdf2319 photos 1 from 1936 CCC annual, courtesy of the James F. Justin Civilian Conservation Corps Museum, members.aol.com/famjustin/ccchis.html.
2319 Photos 2.pdf2319 photos 2 from 1936 CCC annual, courtesy of the James F. Justin Civilian Conservation Corps Museum, members.aol.com/famjustin/ccchis.html.
2319 Roster.pdf2319 roster from 1936 CCC annual, courtesy of the James F. Justin Civilian Conservation Corps Museum, members.aol.com/famjustin/ccchis.html.

Pictures

Picture TitleDescription
ANF 13 Camp 13 Mess Camp 13 mess hall scene. This photo is a 5 x 7 that was in with the Capt. Reed & Staff photo and the Capt. Reed photo. All 3 are marked on the back - #2319, the Camp 13 Company number.
ANF 13 Camp Sheffield Aerial photo of Camp ANF-13 probably taken soon after of the barracks construction had been completed in August 1935. The camp appears to be fully constructed.
ANF 13 Captain c1936 Capt. Malcolm F. Reed, commander, Camp ANF-13. Believed to have been taken during the winter of 1936.


Additional Information (contributed by Archive visitors)
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On April 23, 1933, 1st Lt. Malcolm F. Reed was the second US Army reserve officer to be called to active duty to serve with the Civilian Conservation Corps. He moved his family to Duhring, PA and established the second camp in the United States at Pigeon, PA. By April 25, 1933, temporary tent emplacements were being installed at Camp ANF-1, Company 318 at Pigeon, PA. By the time winter came that year, 3 barracks and a mess hall had been constructed. Before the winter of 1934 came, 3 more barracks and the camp garage had been constructed. On November 14, 1934, 1st Lt. Malcolm F. Reed was promoted to Captain. On June 26, 1935, Capt. Reed and half of company 318 moved to a site northwest of Sheffield, PA and established Camp ANF-13, Company 2319. Most of the photos from my father=s records were in old style photograph albums. Some were 2 2@ x 4" while others were 2" x 3" prints which would indicate that they were from, what was called at that time, box cameras and they may have been personal photographs. Most camps, at least later on in the CCC program, taught photography and took official photographs for the camp; however, most of the photographs in the albums were developed commercially as indicated by numerical roll identification numbers on the back of the print. 07/23/2014
ANF-13 (Bull Hill) was operational from July 2, 1935 until 1946, but it was converted to a German POW camp from 1942 through 1946. It was also used as a YCC, Youth Conservation Camp, in the 1970s, with the addition of mobile trailers on the site. There was a Univ. of Iowa forestry field school here in the 1980s and it was an 82d Airborne exercise area. The CCC men from here built the Farnsworth Fish Hatchery, and also Forest Roads 116, 119 and 154, as well as many other projects. Besides Bull Hill, it was also called the Austin Hill and the Cherry Grove Camp. See the "Valley Voice" (Sheffield newspaper) for Friday, Oct. 1999 for interviews, photos and maps. A 1994 edition of this paper has many more photos. An article in the Sheffield "Observer" for Aug. 13. 1935 lists the eleven buildings, which included five 110' barracks. It is west of Sheffield, on Route 2002, between Forest Roads 416 and 481. There is a road side historic marker, erected by the ANF. Isabelle Champlin, University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, Bradford, PA., has site maps, as does the ANF.06/09/2004



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