CCC Chow Line in Groton, Vermont.

CCCChowLineGroton_Full.jpg

Title

CCC Chow Line in Groton, Vermont.

Creator

Lockard, Charles, Vermont State Forestry Dept.

Description

The Civilian Conservation Corps, a Depression-era program to provide jobs for unemployed men in the Vermont forests, brought some African-Americans to Vermont. According to some histories of the time, this was the first time that many Vermonters had seen African-Americans in their midst. Interestingly, most photos of CCC activities, including large group portraits, in the collections of the Vermont Historical Society, do not show any Black CCC members, so it is not clear how many Blacks actually served in Vermont. This is one example, however, of a photo of an African-American CCC member waiting for food while doing work in Groton State Forest. These men were probably in Camp 146 which drew its personnel from western Massachusetts.

Date

December 1933

Source

Vermont Historical Society picture file (F-CCC-

Identifier

CCCChowLineGroton_Full.jpg

Format

jpeg

Coverage

Groton (Vt.)

Original Format

Repository

Vermont Historical Society Library, 60 Washington Street, Suite 1, Barre, Vermont 05641

Tags

Citation

Lockard, Charles, Vermont State Forestry Dept., “CCC Chow Line in Groton, Vermont.,” Digital Vermont: A Project of the Vermont Historical Society, accessed December 7, 2024, https://www.digitalvermont.org/items/show/1870.