Seven Camps Of The Ccc

The Pennsylvania CCC Online Archive, kept by the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, lists seven Civilian Conservation Corps camps in Huntingdon County. Six of them opened in the spring of 1933, between May 6 and June 16.

Camp S-59, Ross Farm, also known as Greenwood Furnace or Saeger Farm, opened May 6, 1933, worked on Greenwood Furnace State Park and closed in October 1935. Camp S-58, Bell Furnace, with its post office at Mount Union, opened May 30 and closed October 1, 1937. Camp S-60, Whipple Place, eighteen miles north of Petersburg, and Camp S-61, Diamond Valley, seven miles north of Petersburg, both opened June 5. Diamond Valley closed October 1, 1937, while Whipple Place was open at least until July 1, 1941. Camp S-57, Paradise Furnace, with its post office at Aitch, and Camp S-112, Detweiler, also called Martin's Gap, sixteen miles northeast of Huntingdon, both opened June 16. Detweiler closed December 15, 1937, and Paradise Furnace in 1941.

The seventh camp came later and had a different job. Camp SCS-9, Todd, was a soil conservation camp. It opened October 31, 1935, with its post office at Todd and its railroad at Mount Union, and it closed in 1938.

The archive also records how the camps reached the outside world. Diamond Valley and Whipple Place got their mail at Petersburg and their telephone through Alexandria. For Detweiler, the post office, telephone, express mail, telegraph and railroad were all at Huntingdon. The Greenwood camp's express mail and railroad came through Belleville.

Checked 2026-10-31 · County histories and primary sources, read in full

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