I was just barely old enough to remember dad not being home, age 4-5, so you can probably guess I am in my 70's now. Just for further reference, it was my father that took me into the Museum (the first building erected - log style - and was used as the dormatory) in mid state Florida (Highlands Hammock State Park) and explained many of the things that he knew about. He would have much preferred to be able to work in HHSP but they would not let him. As another responder to on this, this was the Government's way of "Controlling the Situation". Sparkgapper On Apr 22, 2012, at 2:39 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I was wondering how old you were back when they had the CC > Camps? > All those CC Camps were housing for workers. The men were > taken to where there was work to be done. They were paid to > work and the CC Camps were where they lived while working. > Not every one could get work close to home. > > It was World War II that got this country out of the Great > Depresion. > > Cassie > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "William G. Bates" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2012 9:42 AM > Subject: Re: [ARCARROL] 1940 Census > > > Something for consideration: > He would not have been sent to any camp within about 400 miles > of his home. My father wound up over 600 miles from home, > central North Carolina from South Central Florida, and there > was a camp just fifteen miles of our house. In the Museum to > the CCC now part of that site the above was postulated but > there was no reasoning for that rule. I never did find out > why the government would spend all that money on > transportation except it benefited mostly the RailRoad as > their main transportation source. > > Sparkgapper > On Apr 21, 2012, at 10:09 PM, [email protected] wrote: > >> >> While exploring the newly released 1940 census for Carroll >> Co., AR, I couldn't find my father, Eugene Snow, who was >> thought to be in the CCC camp at that time. The Enumeration >> District for the CCC camp was 8-24, but it shows as two >> blank pages with Non-Pop written across it. Does anyone >> know the history of the CCC camp during the census taking? >> Phillip >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the >> message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message