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General Information

Camp Name: Shelocta Opened: 6/27/1935
Camp Type: Soil Conservation Camp Closed: **/**/1938
Alternate Names: Crooked Creek

Location

MODERN INFORMATION
GPS DD Coordinates: Latitude: 40.662667
Longitude: -79.314533
Modern Directions: No Information
Current Landholder: No Information
HISTORIC INFORMATION
County: ARMSTRONG
Historic Directions: Kimmel Farm, one mile west of Shelocta.

Location of Closest
Post Office: No Information
Telephone: No Information
Express Mail: No Information
Telegraph: No Information
Railroad: No Information
Administrators
NamePositionTenure
Sheldon ButerbaughForeman **/**/1936 to **/**/1936
Walter W DavisForester **/**/1936 to **/**/1936
Jay H McAnultyMechanic **/**/1936 to **/**/1936
Robert L PorterCamp Superintendent **/**/1936 to **/**/1936
James C StockdaleForeman **/**/1936 to **/**/1936
Harry S WarnerForeman **/**/1936 to **/**/1936

Companies
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Company NumberDates Occupied
2328**/**/**** to **/**/****


Camp Documents
TitleDocument Description
2328 History2328 history from 1936 CCC annual, courtesy of the James F. Justin Civilian Conservation Corps Museum
2328 Photos.pdf2328 photos from 1936 CCC annual, courtesy of the James F. Justin Civilian Conservation Corps Museum, members.aol.com/famjustin/ccchis.html.
2328 Roster.pdf2328 roster from 1936 CCC annual, courtesy of the James F. Justin Civilian Conservation Corps Museum, members.aol.com/famjustin/ccchis.html.

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Additional Information (contributed by Archive visitors)
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Mr. Edward Craig, of Newton-Hamilton, PA was at this camp in 1935.05/15/2005
A stone historical marker honoring the U.S. Civil Conservation Corps and its work in the area stands off Tanoma Road in Rayne Township. (Gazette photo by Tom Peel)In 1935, when Ruth Kinter Crist was a teen-ager growing up off Tanoma Road in Rayne Township, she watched a government social program take shape right outside her front door. That year, the New Deal's Civilian Conservation Corps settled into Indiana County. The CCC was a federal program that employed young men in a variety of jobs designed to benefit rural America. Throughout the country, teams of workers were hired for jobs related to agriculture and conservation. The workers, who were recruited from across the state, lived in quarters right out in the countryside. According to Clarence Stephenson's "Indiana County: 175th Anniversary History," a CCC detachment from the Blue Hole Camp, Somerset County, began erecting an 80-foot fire tower on Penn View Mountain, Burrell Township, in February 1935. Another early CCC site in Indiana County was on the Kinter farm off Tanoma Road, according to Stephenson. The workers arrived there in the spring of 1935. "They were in tents on a 20-acre piece of ground owned by my uncle," said Crist, now 82 and a resident of Home. "They lived on it rent free, but they did a lot of fixing up." The youths employed in the Indiana County program arrived from South Park, Allegheny County. Their tents were set up on a piece of Kinter property located on the south side of Tanoma Road, just a lit08/23/2004



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