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• <br />I• <br />There was one camp (named Camp Robin Hood) located in St. <br />Joseph County, Camp D-3 (for drainage), occupied from August 1935 <br />into early 1939 by members of Company 517. This company of young <br />black men cleaned and duct new drainage ditches throughout St. <br />Joseph and surrounding counties. In 1938 enrollees from this <br />camp planted the seedlings for the STUDEBAKER tree sign at the <br />company's proving grounds, which today is Bendix Woods County <br />Park. After remaining empty for some months, the camp, re- <br />numbered SCS -24 (for Soil Conservation Service) housed Company <br />1596 until the spring of 1942. This was a company of young white <br />men engaged in general soil conservation work throughout the <br />county on various farms.-"'::' The site of the camp is now the Robin <br />Hood Golf Course east of US31 on New Road. <br />After the demise of the CWA in the spring of 1934, some <br />federally funded work relief projects continued under FERA until <br />Roosevelt introduced the Works Progress Administration, with <br />Harry Hopkins in charge, in 1935. With the establishment of the <br />WPA, the federal government undertook a vast and comprehensive <br />program to create jobs of all sorts that would as closely as <br />possible match the skills of the unemployed. Such work, however. <br />would not compete with whatever jobs the private sector might be <br />able to offer. Wages, paid in cash. hovered above average direct <br />relief payments but below roughly comparable work in private <br />1" NA, RG35, E-115 Camp Inspection Reports, Box 71; "Fifty <br />• Civilian Conservation Corps Companies Are Working in Indiana," <br />Outdoor Indiana 2 (December 1935), 12; Indiana District, Civilian <br />Conservation Corps, 1938-1939, 48-51. <br />The Studebaker tree sign is listed in the National Register of <br />Historic Places. <br />