CCC Company 850 - Mesquite, TX
N 32° 46.041 W 096° 35.543
14S E 725525 N 3628060
A 2022 Texas Historical Marker stands in front of the restroom at the Mesquite High School baseball field, providing some history of the work done by Company 850 of the Civilian Conservation Corps here in Mesquite from 1935 to 1941.
Waymark Code: WM1839V
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 05/21/2023
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The marker reads:
During the Great Depression, Hicks Jobson set aside eight acres of his farm to allow the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal work relief programs, to establish a local camp. Located 1/4 mile east of Mesquite, Company 850 welcomed 250 enrollees in June 1935. The site included 24 barracks, a mess hall, health facility, bath house and recreation hall. Under Project SCS-36-T, the men worked on soil conservation and engaged more than 300 farmers in Dallas and surrounding counties on over 40,000 acres until 1941. Work included terracing, fencing, check dams and levees along the East Fork of the Trinity River. The camp land was later donated to Mesquite ISD.
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