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[Patriot]

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC):  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_Conservation_Corps

[frawin]

If memory serves me correctly the Howard, Polk Daniels Lake, was built by CCC labor. I think there is a sign on the Dam that tells about it.

[sodbuster]

If memory serves me correctly the Howard, Polk Daniels Lake, was built by CCC labor. I think there is a sign on the Dam that tells about it.

I will leave this to Frank, Waldo and others to explain. But a quick internet search says it was a WPA Works Project Administration job a Polk Daniels. I have no idea, I trust Frank more than I trust myself.

David

[srkruzich]

If memory serves me correctly the Howard, Polk Daniels Lake, was built by CCC labor. I think there is a sign on the Dam that tells about it.

TVA the "entity" that is supposed to bepurchasing the power from the windfarm was totally built by CCC labor.  This was a massive undertaking building dams ll through the southeast and linking all of the lakes in the states to flow through the tva system.  I think all of the water ends up in the tennessee river.  

Lots of folks were killed too building it.  Paid very little for labor. 15 a month i think was what was offered.  I know my grandpa talked about it saying that he made 45 a month selling game to the restaurants and farming tobacco along with other crops.  there were 13 brothers n sisters and no one there went without food or clothes.  ALl of them made anywhere from 30 -50 a month doing what they could do.  Hunting fishing, farming, sewing, ect.... It went to the operation of the homestead.  

in 1939 my grandpa built a log cabin with my grandma and moved into it and the next year my mom was born in that cabin.  No reastrictions back then, you could make a living if you worked at it.  Today, they would regulate the crap out of ya and stop ya from doing what it took to live.

[srkruzich]

there is a proper use for everything.  You take it out of its proper use you have problems.

[Diane Amberg]

CCC paid $30.00 a month to young unmarried unskilled men from 18-25. Most of the money was given to the young man's parents. Perhaps that was why it was called slavery by some.

[W. Gray]

Photos of the Polk Daniels Lake construction are at

http://www.cascity.com/howard/forum/index.php/topic,9509.0.html

It was originally the Howard City Lake but at some point Tom Thompson was honored by naming it Polk Daniels, Thompson's alter ego.