Bringing Water to the Desert: the Civilian Conservation Corps at Petrified Forest National Park
Author(s): William T Reitze; Melyssa Huston
Year: 2018
Summary
Over the last four years Petrified Forest National Park has begun to replace the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) installed waterline which carries drinking water to the original headquarters complex at Rainbow Forest. At the completion of the project in 1940 the Rainbow Forest Waterline represented the longest CCC hand-dug waterline in a National Park. Survey and recording, currently in progress, along the complete 26 mile corridor has documented a detailed archaeological record of the lives of the CCC crews as they worked their way across the badlands and grasslands of the Painted Desert. This paper will use the results of this survey project, coupled with historical references, to provide a detailed look into the daily lives of the CCC crews; from typical camp life, to remote backcountry work, and even relaxing afternoons playing golf on a course they built for themselves above the then under construction headquarters complex.
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Bringing Water to the Desert: the Civilian Conservation Corps at Petrified Forest National Park. William T Reitze, Melyssa Huston. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2018 ( tDAR id: 441591)
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Keywords
General
Civilian Conservation Corps
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National Park Service
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
Depression Era
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 1052