Monday, June 6, 2011

"Devil's Lake, Wisconsin, and the Civilian Conservation Corps" by Robert J. Moore


History of Devil's Lake written with elbow grease. (Baraboo News-Republic, 6/6/2011)

Excerpt: During the dark economic times of the Great Depression in the 1930s, young men of the Civilian Conservation Corps helped make Devil's Lake State Park what it is.

Using only the most basic of tools, workers raising buildings and cleared boulders from trails, says the author of a new book on the subject
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From The History Press.

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