McMillan Woods

McMillan Woods
McMillan Woods
Woods
Name origin: O. D. McMillan[1]:'94
Country United States
State Pennsylvania
County Adams
NPS unit Gettysburg National Military Park
Landform Seminary Ridge
Location "McMillan Woods" marker
Biome Northern Piedmont ecoregion
Geology Gettysburg-Newark Lowlands, Rossville Diabase dike[2] (50 feet thick)
Historic District
GNMP structure
GNIS ID
Gettysburg Battlefield (75000155)
ID52[3]
1180785 [4]

McMillan Woods was used during the Battle of Gettysburg and for Gettysburg Battlefield camps after the American Civil War, including the WWII POW camp at Gettysburg. The cast iron site identification tablet for the woods was placed in 1920,[3] and the woods is the site of a youth campground.

CCC camp

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp NP-2[5] had opened by February 3, 1934[1] in McMillan Woods near CCC Camp Renaissance in Pitzer Woods (camp NP-1). Charles Heilman was the 1936 commander of CCC camp No. 2,[2][3] and in 1937 the commander was involved in a hit and run accident.[4] The camp provided manpower for building the veterans camp for the 1938 Gettysburg reunion,[6] and about 50 enrollees of CCC Company #1355-C served as aides for unaccompanied veterans.[5]

In 1939, the McMillan Woods CCC camp became the 1st under an "all colored staff" when the white supervisory personnel transferred to the Blue Knob CCC camp[6] (the camp's singing quartet made public appearances in 1939.)[7] In March 1942, the McMillan Woods CCC camp was to be abandoned,[8] and the facility became the 1944-5 WWII POW camp at Gettysburg.

References

  1. ^ Gettysburg National Military Park Commission. The Gettysburg Commission Reports. Gettysburg, PA: War Department. http://www.gdg.org/Research/Authored%20Items/BCRReports/{{{version}}}.html. 
  2. ^ "Gettysburg National Military Park and Eisenhower National Historic Site: Geologic Resources Inventory Report" (pdf). Denver, Colorado: National Park Service: Natural Resource Program Center. 2009. http://www.nature.nps.gov/Geology/inventory/publications/reports/gett-eise_gri_rpt_body_print.pdf. Retrieved 2010-02-02. 
  3. ^ a b Cope, Emmor (1896, preserved 1999)), "Pitzer Woods - Cast Iron Site ID Tablet" (NPS.gov webpage), List of Classified Structures, p. 8 (United States Department of War marker), http://www.hscl.cr.nps.gov/insidenps/report.asp?PARK=GETT&RECORDNO=190, retrieved 2011-06-06, "1 of 35 Site ID Tablets by War Dept's ... Designer ... Cope, E. B. ... Painted raised letter and border inscription tablet, 2'1"x1'8". Mounted on fluted post, 3' high." 
  4. ^ "Query Form For The United States And Its Territories". U.S. Board on Geographic Names. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic. Retrieved 2011-06-06. 
  5. ^ "Camp Information for NP-2-PA". Pennsylvania CCC Archive. Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/stateparks/ccc/Camp.aspx?ID=142. Retrieved 2010-02-01. 
  6. ^[dead link]Nagle, George F. "Research Project-CCC Camps". Afrolumens.org. http://www.afrolumens.org/ccccamps.htm. Retrieved 2010-06-01. 

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