Picking up cones under shortleaf pines, CCC Camp Shawnee #2 (November 1933)

ID: 356 ~ Source: Image courtesy of The Ohio State University. Ohio Agricultural Research & Development Center. Wooster OH. Forestry Images Collection. http://hdl.handle.net/2374.OX/29625 ~ Creator: Andrew Feight ~ Date: November 1933

This file appears in: CCC Co. 1520 & Camp Shawnee No. 2

These men, all African-Americans, were enrolled in CCC Co. 1520, which made their home at Camp Shawnee No. 2, deep in the heart of Scioto County's Shawnee State Forest. Photographs of black CCC enrollees in Shawnee are extremely rare and this one has a wonderful intimacy about it - a close up of the men at work, collecting shortleaf pine cones for seed extraction.

This file appears in: CCC Co. 1520 & Camp Shawnee No. 2

CCC Co. 1520 & Camp Shawnee No. 2

By Andrew Lee Feight, Ph.D.

CCC Camp Shawnee No. 2 was home to one of the four segregated, all black companies of Civilian Conservation Corps units, which helped to construct the infrastructure of the modern-day Shawnee State…