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Garrison concourse receives 2012 Minnesota Preservation Award

...10 Most Endangered Historic Places. The concourse was originally constructed between 1936 and 1939 by the Civilian Conservation Corps, one of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal programs to combat the Great Depression. The concourse...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2012-07-27/garrison-concourse-receives-2012-min
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Grass-roots effort reopens Pequot Lookout Tower

...the DNR's management resources division. The Pequot Lakes fire tower was constructed in 1934-35 by the Civilian Conservation Corps, which during President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal put three million young men to work across the...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2012-10-04/grass-roots-effort-reopens-pequot-lo
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Four to be inducted into Pillager Hall of Fame

...because of the Depression. He struck out into a hard-living, rough-and-tumble world and joined the Civilian Conservation Corps for a number of years before returning to Pillager. As he was quoted from a July 1960 article from North Central...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2011-09-16/pillager-four-pillager-high-school-g
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How Perry misreads the New Deal

...but do you care?"Since he won't say, I'll help: His list includes three work-relief programs (the Civilian Conservation Corps, the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and the Public Works Administration) that saved millions of...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2011-10-04/how-perry-misreads-new-deal
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Historic Garrison Concourse dedication Nov. 22

...number of new granite stones matching what was used when the concourse was originally constructed in 1936 by the Civilian Conservation Corps. The project received a combination of state and federal funding, including money from the American Recovery...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2011-11-11/historic-garrison-concourse-dedicati
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Popular Minnesota park sustains heavy storm damage

...of parks and trails. The National Park Service helped design the park in the 1930s, and workers from the Civilian Conservation Corps built bridges over creeks and rivers, constructed buildings, planted trees and cut trails. Many of the buildings...

http://brainerddispatch.com/outdoors/2011-07-08/popular-minnesota-park-sustains-
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Highway 371 work begins anew after shutdown

...will be reconstructed with similar pink and black granite that was used when it was constructed in 1936 by the Civilian Conservation Corps. Resurfacing Highway 10 from north of Highway 115 at Cushing to just south of the Little Falls bypass will...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2011-07-25/highway-371-work-begins-anew-after-s
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Harlan 'Fred' C. Fredericksen Sr.

...born May 8, 1921, in Arco, Minn., to John and Christine (Jorgensen) Fredericksen. He served in the Civilian Conservation Corps for a couple of years and then served in the United States Army from 1939 to 1945. On Oct. 23, 1945, Harlan...

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Brainerd Dispatch: News | Brainerd, Minnesota | Brainerd Lakes Area News on brainerddispatch.com

...will be reconstructed with similar pink and black granite that was used when it was constructed in 1936 by the Civilian Conservation Corps. In May 2010 the Preservation Alliance of Minnesota listed the Garrison Concourse as one of the state's...

http://www.brainerddispatch.com/stories/103010/new_20101030016.shtml
Nisswa Legion Bataan Days scheduled May 22-23

...and the niece of Billie Brown. The Nisswa Legion is named after Billie Brown.After serving in the U.S. Civilian Conservation Corps Camp in Wilton, Minn., Kenneth Earl Davis enlisted in the U.S. Army in September 1940. He was 19 years...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2011-05-12/nisswa-legion-bataan-days-scheduled-
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