Near Hot Springs in Custer County, South Dakota — The American Midwest (Upper Plains)
Civilian Conservation Corps Camp
Photographed by Brian Anderson, May 19, 2019
1. Civilian Conservation Corps Camp Marker West Face
Inscription.
Civilian Conservation Corps Camp. .
Camp NP-1 (DNP-1): located southeast of the cave entrance in Wind Cave Canyon., Companies: 2754 -- 7/16/34 - 11/1/39 2757 detachment -- 4/18/40 - 8/1/40, . The Civilian Conservation Corps was a federal relief program during 1933-1942 that gave jobless men work renovating abused lands. The Army built 48 200-man camps in South Dakota and provided food, clothing, medical care, pay and programs of education, recreation and religion for 23,709 enrollees (single men aged 17-25 who sent $25 of their $30 wage to their families) and war veterans. Camps and work projects were supervised by another 2834 men. The Office of Indian Affairs ran smaller units for 4554 American Indians., Camp Wind Cave was part of a national CCC program to improve the nations park system. Supervised by the National Park Service, enrollees developed Wind Cave National Park and Jewel Cave National Monument. In Wind Cave CCs renovated tour trails and installed the 208 foot elevator shaft and building, concrete steps and indirect lighting. They constructed the Park water and sewer systems, parking area, stone guard rails, 18.6 miles of big game fence, the pigtail bridge and several smaller ones and several miles of road. CCs built ten buildings, helped WPA remodel five others and landscaped headquarters area and state highway. At Jewel Cave, they renovated the cave, disposed of old buildings and built a headquarters building, parking lot and an 800 foot trail.
Camp NP-1 (DNP-1): located southeast of the cave entrance
in Wind Cave Canyon.
The Civilian Conservation Corps was a federal relief program during 1933-1942 that gave jobless men work renovating abused lands. The Army built 48 200-man camps in South Dakota and provided food, clothing, medical care, pay and programs of education, recreation and religion for 23,709 enrollees (single men aged 17-25 who sent $25 of their $30 wage to their families) and war veterans. Camps and work projects were supervised by another 2834 men. The Office of Indian Affairs ran smaller units for 4554 American Indians.
Camp Wind Cave was part of a national CCC program to improve the nations park system. Supervised by the National Park Service, enrollees developed Wind Cave National Park and Jewel Cave National Monument. In Wind Cave CCs renovated tour trails and installed the 208 foot elevator shaft and building, concrete steps and indirect lighting. They constructed the Park water and sewer systems, parking area, stone guard rails, 18.6 miles of big game fence,
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the pigtail bridge and several smaller ones and several miles of road. CCs built ten buildings, helped WPA remodel five others and landscaped headquarters area and state highway. At Jewel Cave, they renovated the cave, disposed of old buildings and built a headquarters building, parking lot and an 800 foot trail.
Erected 1991 by CCC Alumni, the South Dakota State Historical Society, the South Dakota Department of Transportation and Wind Cave National Park. (Marker Number 520.)
Location. 43° 31.267′ N, 103° 28.573′ W. Marker is near Hot Springs, South Dakota, in Custer County. It is on U.S. 385 1.9 miles north of 7-11 Road (County Road 101), on the right when traveling north. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Hot Springs SD 57747, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this
Photographed by Brian Anderson, May 19, 2019
2. Civilian Conservation Corps Camp Marker East Face
marker is in West River and in Greater Rapid City. It is also in the American Black Hills, in the Lewis & Clark Corridor, on the prairies, and on the Northern Plains. Globally, it is in North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once Ruperts Land and also the Louisiana Purchase.
Credits. This page was last revised on June 10, 2019. It was originally submitted on May 29, 2019, by Brian Anderson of New Albany, Ohio. This page has been viewed 358 times since then and 28 times this year. Photos:1, 2, 3. submitted on June 5, 2019, by Brian Anderson of New Albany, Ohio. • Bill Pfingsten was the editor who published this page.
