Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.). Camp MP-5 (Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, Ga. and Tenn.)
Dates
- Existence: 1933 - 1937
Biography
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a government work relief program in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men between the ages of 17 and 28, which ran from 1933 to 1942. In the Chattanooga, Tennessee area, CCC camps were supervised by the National Park Service, which had assumed administration of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park in 1933. On Lookout Mountain, Camp MP-5 (Camp Adolph Ochs) made improvements to the National Park sites of Point Park and Craven’s House, and to Chattanooga-Lookout Mountain Park, a privately-managed park encompassing approximately 3000 acres of land across the eastern and western slopes of the mountain. Chattanooga-Lookout Mountain Park was absorbed into Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park in 1935.
Between 1933 and 1937, CCC workers in Camp MP-5 on Lookout Mountain cut firebreaks, maintained and improved hiking and riding trails, repaired roads, constructed park infrastructure such as picnic tables and benches, and planted thousands of trees and shrubs. About a dozen CCC workers were also selected to work as history guides and lecturers for visitors at Point Park and at Chickamauga National Military Park. Camp MP-5 on Lookout Mountain was disbanded in 1937 as CCC work projects began to wind down.
Citation:
Paige, John C. and Jerome A. Greene. "Administrative History of Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park." Denver, CO: United States Department of the Interior National Park Service, 1983. Accessed March 27, 2023. https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/chch/adhit.htm.Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Civilian Conservation Corps and Brock Candy Company photographs
Civilian Conservation Corps photographs
This collection contains photographs documenting the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) crews on Lookout Mountain, Tennessee between 1933 and 1939. The photographs document one of the CCC camps on Lookout Mountain, Camp MP-5, and depict enrollees’ work on environmental conservation and infrastructure improvements for the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park and Chattanooga-Lookout Mountain Park.