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Camp Information for S-131-PA
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General Information

Camp Name: Potterdale Opened: 5/30/1933
Camp Type: No Information Closed: 10/10/1935
Alternate Names: Hicks Run

Location

MODERN INFORMATION
GPS DD Coordinates: Latitude: 41.367633
Longitude: -78.2594
Modern Directions: No Information
Current Landholder: No Information
HISTORIC INFORMATION
County: ELK
Historic Directions: 29 mi SE St. Marys

Location of Closest
Post Office: Driftwood
Telephone: Benezette
Express Mail: Driftwood
Telegraph: Emporium
Railroad: Hicks Run
Administrators
NamePositionTenure
C E BaerDistrict Forester **/**/**** to **/**/****

Companies
Click a Company below to see a list of people within the Company that were at this Camp
Company NumberDates Occupied
3705/30/1933 to **/**/****


Camp Documents
TitleDocument Description
All CCC Camps Excell From NACCAThis spreadsheet has a listing of all CCC camps by state from the NACCA.

Pictures

Picture TitleDescription
J. Fred Ledger Fred Ledger stands in his uniform in front of a tent.
s-131-pa A tent camps is near mountains.


Additional Information (contributed by Archive visitors)
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My father, J. Fred Ledger Jr. of Bridgeport, Pennsylvania, was born on October 20, 1913. He was the fourth child in a family with four boys and one girl. The family lived along the Schuykill Canal and later moved to another house in Bridgeport. He was 19 years old when he joined the Civilian Conservation Corps. After training, he reported to Camp S-131 at Hicks Run, Pennsylvania in 1933. At the time, he was dating my mother-to-be who was still in high school in Norristown, Pennsylvania. They corresponded every week, sometimes more than once. There were some other local men at the camp and one, Tom Quinn, was best man at my parents wedding in 1935. Dad had been a Boy Scout an spent a lot of time fishing and hunting along the Schuykill River and didn't mind the rough conditions experienced in the mountains of Pennsylvania. He said conditions were primitive and the work hard, but it was the Great Depression and the men were happy to have a job. The C.C.C. was clearing land and building roads. The men slept on cots low to the ground in large tents, shaking their boots out each morning to be sure no snakes were in them. There were a lot of snakes. He sent rattles from a timber rattlesnake in one of his letters to my mother, and once told me that one of the guys was bitten on the hand by a non poisonous black snake. The bite became infected. There were only occasional visits by a dentist, with the patients sitting on a peach basket for treatment. My father was a goo07/10/2014



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