Red Barn - Brighton Reservation - Okeechobee, Florida, USA - Civilian Conservation Corps on Waymarking.com

Constructed in 1941 by the Civilian Conservation Corps - Indian Division this barn became the starting point for the development of the Seminole Cattle operations, now the 12th largest cattle operation in the United States.

According to the Federal Writers' Project, Florida: A Guide to the Southernmost State pages 468 & 469, the CCC played a significant role in construction projects on the Brighton Reservation.

"Seminole Village" in 1939, south of the town of Brighton, on a 35,660-acre reservation:
Here approximately 100 Indians are employed on CCC projects in road building, fencing, water development, and revegetation. All this group are Cow Creek, or Muskogee, differing in language from the Big Cypress Indians of the west coast, who are Mikasuki. Reservation Indians farm the center of cleared hammocks and herd some 800 head of Hereford and Angus cattle on a subsistence basis. Families live in groups of palm-thatched chuckoos, 10 feet by 12 feet, containing raised sleeping platforms covered with mosquito netting. One chuckoo serves as the family dining room, another as the kitchen. Both children and adults receive instruction in the village school, which is equipped with modern facilities, including a community workroom and shop, men's and women's showers, and a laundry." (visit link)

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