CCC Company’s 740 Dwindling Numbers

The reduced size of Camp 740—C.H. Bennett Collection

CCC Camp 740 started with an original crew of 178 men that came from Piedmont, Missouri, and then briefly to Spalding, Nebraska with its final destination of Secret Valley, California. Bennett’s caption of the above photograph, that after seventeen months, this was who remained. Enrollees had the option at every six months to either enlist for another six months or depart. Over the course of time, many departed.

A group of CCC’s leaving Secret Valley on September 30, 1936—C.H. Bennett Collection

By 1938 the Secret Valley camp days were numbered. Its mission had been completed with the work needed to be done. I have not been able to locate an exact date of closure, but I do not come across any references of its existence by 1939.

Tim

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