Deer Camp 2 RACO CCC CAMP #667 Traditional Geocache
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Deer Camp 2 RACO CCC CAMP #667
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PLEASE NO FOOD TO ATTRACT CRITTERS. ORIGINAL CONTENTS: PONCHO BEAR MINI PLAYING CARDS RULER MOUSE LETTER OPENER ROPE WATCH WHISTLE I WILL ADD SEVERAL HISTORY PAMPLETS FOR TRADE LATER WHEN I GET THEM PRINTED. Camp Raco, originally known as the "Lone Pine Camp," was founded on May 2, 1933, as the first CCC camp in the Upper Peninsula. It was home to Company 667, which was organized in April 1933, with 200 enrollees from Detroit and Hamtramck. Official designation as Camp Raco F-5 occured in summer, 1933. Tents gave way to permanent buildings, but not before winter had provided snowstorms late in the year. Some signs of the camp's permanent buildings - a chimney and foundations – are evident at the site today. Work by enrollees at Camp Raco included tree planting, truck trail construction, telephone construction, stream improvement, campground construction, fish planting and fire presuppression. By 1942, when Raco was the only camp left in the district, its fire protection area covered 152,140 acres. After the camp was closed, the facilities were used during World War II as a German prisoner of war camp.
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