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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: August 26, 2020
Caption: Town Built for a Dam Marker
Additional Description: Captions: (top right) Downtown Fort Peck, June 26, 1936. Business shown include Texaco Gas Station, Vornholt's Drug Store, beauty shop, Buttery's Meat Market, Kearney's Newstand, Stewart's Dry Cleaning, Lucke's Shoe Store, Green Hut Café, and the Lutheran church. (middle right) Barracks were built a half mile west of the town, grouped in blocks of 16, Each bunkhouse had a large room with 24 single or double-deck bunks. A bathhouse sat between them at each end of the block. The middle of the block had a mess hall with space to feed 384 men at one time.; (bottom right) Workers ling up at the Administration Building, July 16, 1936.
Submitted: December 8, 2020, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p555671
File Size: 3.463 Megabytes

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