Camp West Salem - Company 601 - West Salem, WI
Posted by: mrjcanger
N 43° 53.956 W 091° 06.895
15T E 651390 N 4862411
This sign marks the area for one of the two camps CCC Company 601 had within the Coulee Region of Wisconsin.
Waymark Code: WMTMY0
Location: Wisconsin, United States
Date Posted: 12/14/2016
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On the North side of Wisconsin 16, across from the Veterans Memorial Campground sits this simple sign marking history in the small town of West Salem, WI. The CCC had one of its two camps for Company 601 located in West Salem while the other was located in Holmen, WI. The sign states that the camp was in existence from 1933 to 1942 . Online databases put the dates of the camp from 1935-1941. An article from the Onalaska-Holmen Courier-Life from 2011 described life within the Holmen Camp while mentioning the existence of the West Salem Camp. In the University of Wisconsin data base it states that the West Salem Camp was considered a CCC Soil Conservation camp.
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