Where was CCC Camp #708 first located?
AN: Company #708 originated at Fort Snelling, Minnesota on May 5, 1933, and was moved to Winnie Dam or Bena on May 27, 1933. There were 188 enrollees plus the Army personnel that arrived at Deer River and were hauled to Winnie Dam on trucks. They arrived at Winnie Dam and set up a tent camp and were in the tent camp for several months before they got going on their permanent camp there. It was started to be built with civilian labor and it was back and forth, civilian and then CCC labor, and then finally they got sixteen buildings of the palisade type built there and was completed in about October of the same year. The building was interrupted quite a lot that fall by a rash of fires and they would be pulled off to fight fires. SJ: Were you enrolled at this first camp location? AN: No. I enrolled after the Company moved to Blackduck at Rabideau Lake, six miles south of Blackduck. SJ: What year did they arrive at that place? AN: They moved there January 5, 1936. SJ: Were the buildings a
