I know there were three Civilian Conservation Corps camps in lower Worcester County, Maryland, in the middle years of the 1930s.If you are reading this on a smart phone, you may be surprised that the page graphics are of a cityscape. I don't know why; on my iPad and PC they are of a much more appropriate wooded scene.
I set out with the intention of creating a tribute page to the camp on Camp Road, near Milburn's Landing State Park, a short distance above Pocomoke City, Maryland. I have explored the site several times and have found the location, based on concrete foundations and other things. This was to be my focus, and I named the website after it. I was mistaken as to the camp's identity: I thought it was S-62/ Company 1318 and despite a paucity of material online, I managed to find a company photo, a Christmas menu with the roster at that time, a second set of company officers, and a few other things. After much more digging, I am now convinced that that particular camp was really S-69, and S-62 was located below Corker's Creek, which is itself below Shad Landing State Park, south of Snow Hill, Maryland. Despite having found out more about that camp, little or no sign of it remains. There were actually three camps in the lower part of Worcester County, the third being located somewhere near Public Landing. That was Camp MC-73/Co. 365, a mosquito control camp. Of the three, I am least interested in that one, but nevertheless, I will dutifully record what I find about it. It, too, deserves to be remembered. Note: The State of Maryland plans to do some documentation on existing CCC structures over the next couple of years. I'll post what I learn, when I learn it. IF YOU VISIT THIS WEBSITE PLEASE GO TO THE 'MORE' button and send me a note. Thanks I JUST FOUND THIS! This link to CCC_ART_NewDealArt_WPA_Art (ccclegacy.com) will connect you with some fantastic artwork by CCC enrollees, and perhaps other people. {No it won't; it's not linked up. I'm just dashing this out.} This similarly named site, CCCLegacy.org is also worth looking at; they have a lot of CCC material. |
MARYLANDER AND HERALD,
Dec. 6, 1935 A CCC CAMP THANKSGIVING DINNER MENU Get Better Food in Camp Than Is Served At Home Says County Boy A Somerset county boy, a member of one of the CCC Camps, in writing his parents a description of camp life among 'other things said: "Dad, we have better eats every day in the week than you and Morn have on Sunday."
According to the following facts and figures recently released by the Army Quartermaster Corps, this must be true. Dish up one and a half carloads of oatmeal, scramble a half a million eggs, pile them alongside a carload of bacon and better than a carload of flour cooked into biscuits, wash the whole thing down with several tank cars of coffee and you have an approximate breakfast served the CCC Camps in the country. Of course, on the side there are other things like another carload or so of butter, 1,800 cans of syrup, better than a carload of sugar and more than 10,000 cans of jam and preserves. In all their breakfast figures about twenty carloads of food. For the day, they use almost fifty-eight carloads. Figures compiled by the Army Quartermaster Corps, which has the job of feeding the 500,000 Civilian Conservation Corps workers, set their monthly consumption of food at 1,737 1/2 carloads. This listed thirty-nine items of food. They eat more beef than anything else-9,375,000 pounds, or 426 2-3 carloads, of it a month. Pepper and flavoring extracts ranked lowest, from the standpoint of amount. Nevertheless they manage to get away with 37,500 bottles of flavoring and 150,000 cans of pepper a month. The army figured that it cost $262,500 to buy the Thanksgiving turkeys for the CCC. There were forty-four refrigerator cars loaded down with 875,000 pounds of the birds. Thanksgiving Menu But this was by no means the end of their Thanksgiving dinner. The army listed the menu as: Oyster Soup, Crackers, Roast Young Turkey, Chestnut Stuffing, Giblet Gravy, Cranberry Sauce, Olives, Pickles Stuffed Celery, Fresh Roast Pork, Creamed Mashed Potatoes, Southern Style Sweet Potatoes, Creamed Peas, Lettuce with Mayonnaise, Mince Pie, Apple Pie, Boston Cream Pie, Fruit Cake, Ice Cream, Assorted Nuts, Mixed Candies, Apples, Oranges, Bananas, Bread, Cream, Sugar, Coffee, Cigars, Cigarettes Naturally, they were not expected to do any work on Thanksgiving. Their daily ration, which is the same as that for the army, was worked out in 1932. The surgeon-general reported that tests had shown the men in the CCC gained from seven to eleven pounds in their first two months of feeding on it. The cost of their food runs about $6,000,000 a month, which figures down to about 45 cents a day for each man. Originally, the. Army furnished the cooks for the camps, but now the CCC has learned to cook for itself. |
Locations - All in lower Worcester County,
Maryland
Camp MC-73 (mosquito control) was located somewhere near Public Landing, east of Snow Hill . I don't know where yet.
Camp S-62 was located south of Corker's Creek, below Snow Hill.
Camp S-69 was located on Camp Road, just above what is now Milburn Landing State Park.
Camp S-62 was located south of Corker's Creek, below Snow Hill.
Camp S-69 was located on Camp Road, just above what is now Milburn Landing State Park.