Barracks Area

Barracks Area. Civilian Conservation Corps Company 1475, Camp S-67, Tracy City. Portable buildings with a permanent Impact , Here, based primarily on photographic evidence, is thought to be the first of a row (extending to your right) of four barracks., Inspection reports from 1935 indicate there were four barracks buildings at this site, typical of the standard building complement of many CCC camps at this time., By the time this camp was created in 1935, the CCC had abandoned its initial concept of conventional, permanent buildings, and had begun using an innovative system of portable buildings, consisting of six-foot modular sections that could be bolted together, to allow CCC companies to more easily move their camps to new locations, in order to remain close to their work projects., In 1935, when this camp was created, the standard CCC camp configuration consisted of the following: , . 4 Barracks (sleeping 50 men each), 20' x 130 , . 1 Mess (Dining) Hall, 20' x 180' , . 1 Welfare (Recreation/Exchange) Building, 30' x 120' , . 1 Forestry Personnel Living Quarters, 20' x 90' , . 1 Army Headquarters Building, 20' x 40' , . 1 Warehouse, 20' x 40', This CCC standard made no mention of a bath house or infirmary, though both would be essential for camp operations. However, by 1937, both of those buildings, as well as a "school building" and several additional office and storage structures had been added to the standard camp components., These portable buildings were typically shipped by rail to the depot nearest each CCC camp. CCC records indicated it took 12 railroad cars to ship a complete camp, and 100 truckloads to transport those materials from railhead to camp site. While the building materials may have arrived by train, CCC policy specified that local labor was to be hired for assembling the structures. The CCC put an emphasis on what we now refer to as "buying local," in order to help the economies of the areas in which the CCC placed its camps., From information contained in inspection reports, we know Camp S-67 consisted of the CCC's basic set of buildings, plus the bath house/latrine; an infirmary; a dynamite magazine; and what is thought to be an ice house adjacent to the site of the Mess Hall. The camp also had workshops, a warehouse, and motor pool area for the company's 23 trucks. The reports also suggest Camp S-67 had a baseball field, possibly located on a large, almost square and clearly leveled area, about 100 yards northeast of here, near the camp's main entrance., A look inside the buildings of Camp S-67 , Photo caption (right): There are few good photos that provide a glimpse into the interiors of buildings at this camp. In the first two at right, you can clearly see that the roof trusses as held together with bolts, indicating that these were portable buildings. Camp inspection records confirm that this was, indeed, a portable camp., Photo caption (center): Of all Camp S-67 photos uncovered so far, this one and a series of similar images, each with different CCC Boys in the foreground provides the best glimpse into the overall layout of the camp. The is particularly important, since no camp map or layout has yet been found., Image caption (bottom, right): These architect's drawings, part of the National Park Service Historic American Buildings Survey, depict a still-standing barracks structure from a CCC camp in Colorado. Because of the CCC's emphasis on standardization and portability for its camp buildings, their bears very close resemblance to barracks structures from this camp, as seen in several of the photos on this page., Photo caption (left): In this photo you can clearly see the modular sections that characterized CCC's portable buildings