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Civilian Conservation Corps Camps

Camps NP-2: 8 miles S of Wall on SD 240. 13 iles W (1 mile W of Sage Creek): and NP-3: 1/4 mile S of Cedar Pass Visitor Center. Company 2754 (NP-2) -- 11/1/39 - 10/24/41: (NP-3) -- 10/24/41 - 3/25/42.

The Civilian Conswervation Corps was a Federal Work- relief program during the Great Depression. From 1933 to 1942. The CCC provided work for 31, 097 jobless men in South Dakota - About 22, 000 enrolles (single men aged 17-25), about 1,700 veterans, 54,554 American Indians and 2,834 supervisors. The U.S. Army provided 200 - men caps, food, clothing, medical care and pay, and educationa, recreational and religious programs. The Office of Indian Affairs provided similar services for units on Indian reservation.

Work project, supervised by the National Park service, were in the 243,302-acre Badlands National Monument. Enrollees constructed 20,000 - gallon sump and pump house on the White River, 5 miles of ditch 6 to 12 feed deep, a reservoir 9 feed deep and 50 fee in diameter at Cedar Pass, and the connecting 4- and 6- inch pipes. They built the checking station at Pinnacles and the custodian's residence at Cedar Pass, graveled Sage Creek road, back-sloped roadsides and surveyed proposed development sites. Camp NP-3 was established to eliminate traveling 40 miles each way from Camp NP-2 to build the water system.

Erected in 1990 by CCC Alumni, The South Dakota State Historical Society, The State Department of Transportation and Badlands National Park.

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