Camp Renaissance

For the nearby segregated CCC camp that openedin 1934[1] at McMillan Woods, see Gettysburg Battlefield camps after the American Civil War.

Camp Renaissance[2] was Civilian Conservation Corps camp NP-2 that was established on March 10, 1933,[3] in the Gettysburg Battlefield's Pitzer Woods[4] for reforestation (all 45 tents were blown down by a July 2 "twister").[5] On September 22, 1933, Captain Moran transferred to Camp Renaissance to become the Company 1332 commander,[2] (his 1934 Company 385 of 199 workers was named the best camp/unit in subdistrict 8).[3] The camp with Company #385-C) in Pitzer Woods closed in April 1937[6] (Frank J. Slonaker, former president of the battlefield guide association,[1] had been the camp's service officer).[2]

The Pitzer Woods site was subsequently used for a July 5-9, 1941, encampment of the 71st Coast Artillery Regiment (Anti-Aircraft);[3] [4] for a July 28, 1941, 68th Coast Artillery (AA) day camp;[5] and for the 1943-4 Camp Sharpe training installation.[7]

  1. ^ "Camp Information for NP-2-PA". Pennsylvania CCC Archive. Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Archived from the original on June 9, 2011. Retrieved 2010-02-01.
  2. ^ a b Davis, James E. "Gettysburg C.C.C. Camp Men Get Four Days' Leave" (Google News Archives). Baltimore Afro-American. Retrieved 2011-03-17.
  3. ^ a b "Local Forest Camp No. One Called "Best"". February 9, 1934. Retrieved 2011-03-17.
  4. ^ "Change Site of New Camp". September 16, 1933. Retrieved 2010-02-01.
  5. ^ "Twister Causes Much Damage as It Sweeps Through Here Sunday". July 3, 1933. Retrieved 2010-03-09.
  6. ^ Speakman, Joseph M (2006). At work in Penn's Woods: the Civilian Conservation Corps in Pennsylvania. p. 152. ISBN 0271047372. Retrieved 2010-02-04.
  7. ^ "Says Camp is to be Closed". July 14, 1944. Retrieved 2010-01-31.