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 Cumberland Mountain State Park ~ Cumberland County Tennessee
N 35° 54.025 W 084° 59.822
16S E 680760 N 3974756
CCC COMPANY 3464-SP-7
Waymark Code: WM2BEC
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 10/07/2007
Views: 107
FRONT SIDE:
THE
CIVILIAN CONSERVATION COPRS
AND
CUMBERLAND MOUNTAIN STATE PARK
CCC COMPANY 3464-SP-7 WAS AMONG MAY COMPANIES ORGANIZED
BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO PROVIDE USEFUL EMPLOYMENT FOR
THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE AND AT THE SAME TIME TO DEVELOP AND SAVE
OUR NATURAL RESOURCES.
IT WAS A COOL MORNING ON MAY 25, 1935 WHEN TWENTY MEN COM-
MANDED BY LT. JOHN W. HOWELL LEFT CCC COMPANY 1471, IN PICKETT
STATE FOREST, AS AN ADVANCE CADRE FOR THE CROSSVILLE CAMP.
CCC CO 3464 WAS OFFICIALLY ORGANIZED AUGUST 2, 1935.
THE DAM AND ARCH BRIDGE WAS STARTED NOV. 18, 1935. IT STILL
STANDS TODAY AS THE LARGEST MASONRY PROJECT EVER BUILT BY
THE CCC.
WWI HERO ALVIN C. YORK WAS PROJECT SUPERINTENDENT UNTIL HE
LEFT IN 1940 TO ADVISE ON THE FILMING OF THE MOVIE, "SERGEANT
YORK".
AFTER COMPETING THIS PARK, COMPANY 3464 MOVED TO MONTGOMERY
BELL STATE PARK IN DICKSON COUNTY IN THE SPRING OF 1941.
DEDICATED ON JUNE 29, 1989
TO THE HONOR AND MEMORY OF
THE THREE MILLION MEMBERS WHO SERVED IN
THE CIVILIAN CONSERVATION COPRS
1933 - 1942
TENNESSEE NAMTIONAL ASSOCIATION OF
CIVILIAN CONSERVATION COPS ALUMNI
(NACCCA)
BACKSIDE:
EACH COMPANY CONSISTED OF ABOUT 200 YOUNG MEN MOSTLY FROM
TENNESSEE WHO WERE HOUSED IN TENTS AND BARRACKS UNDER THE
MANAGEMENT OF ARMY PERSONNEL. THE MEN WERE PAID $30 A
MONTH, OF WHICH $25 WAS SENT HOME. tHEY ALSO RECEIVED HOUS-
ING, FOOD, MEDICAL AND DENTAL CARE AS WELL AS EDUCATIONAL
BENEFITS
COMPANY 3464 LEFT A PERMANENT MEMORIAL HERE IN THIS STATE
PARK. OUR REWARD WILL BE THE PLEASURES YOU, YOUR CHILDREN AND
THEIR CHILDREN WILL RECEIVE FROM OUR LABORS. OUR CONTRIBUTION
TO AMERICA WILL LAST THROUGH THE AGES AND TOUCH THE LIVES OF
MILLIONS.
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