Contributed by Trenton Cemetery & Keeping Society
Description
Civilian Conservation Corps employees at the Bar Harbor Camp #154 located on Eagle Lake Road.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Congress created the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1933 to bring together what were considered wasted resources: young men and the land.
These men worked in National and State Parks to revitalize the forests and landscape that made up the parks.
About This Item
- Title: Civilian Conservation Corps at Bar Harbor, 1940
- Creation Date: 1940
- Subject Date: 1940
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Locations:
- Bar Harbor, Hancock County, ME
- Mount Desert, Hancock County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Collection: Bob Leland Collection
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.)--People--Maine--Bar Harbor
- Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.)--Facilities--Maine--Bar Harbor
- Acadia National Park (Me.)
- Work camps--Maine--Bar Harbor
- Employees
- Mount Desert Island (Me.)
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For more information about this item, contact:
Trenton Cemetery & Keeping Society, Trenton, ME 04605
(207) 276-5305
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