Civilian Conservation Corps info and pictures

The Indiana Historical Society has added 150 photographs to its collection, depicting Civilian Conservation Corps camps in Jackson, Jennings, Lawrence, and Orange counties 1934-1936. The photo here is from North Vernon camp no. 1514, where the men built structures in Muskatuck State Park.

The society's web site is not terribly transparent, but more materials are available with a site search, digital image search, or library catalog search.

Many more official records of the government jobs program are at the National Archives and Record Administration, Record Group 35, with two on-line films playable here.




:Photo credit: Indiana Historical Society, CCA Photo Album collection, "Kitchen Force"; digital image
http://images.indianahistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/V0002/id/1547 viewed 20 January 2014.

"New in Collections and Library," INPerspective, January/February 2014, p. 13.

Harold Henderson, "Civilian Conservation Corps info and pictures," Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog, posted 24 January  2014 (http://midwesternmicrohistory.blogspot.com : viewed [date]). [Please feel free to link to the specific post if you prefer.]

Jackson County, Indiana

Jackson County -- that's halfway between Indianapolis and Louisville for you outlanders -- has a newly relocated GenWeb site and a new blog to go with it. Check 'em out, and don't miss the link to online WPA-Era transcribed slave narratives pertaining to Indiana. This is a neglected source for research targets of all colors, as Elizabeth Shown Mills pointed out in one of her presentations at last month's National Genealogical Society conference.

Jackson County, Indiana

Jackson County, Indiana, the 14th of Indiana's 92 counties to be founded, has a blog to go with the excellent Jackson County GenWeb site. (Older posts are at a slightly different site.) If you don't know southern Indiana, it's SE of Bloomington and the county seat is Brownstown. New items on the GenWeb site include a 1912 county directory, a cemetery reading, and several local high-school yearbooks.

Does your GenWeb site have a blog attached?