History of 3648th Civilian Conservation Corps Company

 

CCC Company 3648, Camp Peninsular, Camp SP-10-Wis., Fish Creek, Wisconsin

 

From Sparta Civilian Conservation Corps District, Sixth Corps Area, 1937 Annual

 

History 3648th Company
Camp Peninsular, SP-10-Wis.
Fish Creek,
Wisconsin

          The advance detail of Company 3648 arrived from Camp Finley (the parent company) at the present site of Camp Peninsular, Monday, August 12, 1935. Capt. A.J. Rasmussen was in command of the company with Second Lieut. R.W. Stebbings as Junior Officer and Dr. Warren Baker, a civilian physician, in charge of the Medical Department.

          A tent city sprang up over night, the rest of the company arrived, and a CCC Camp was established in Door County. Work was started immediately on the permanent camp buildings and the company moved in before the first snow.

          In March, 1936, Camp Peninsular sent its basketball squad to a tournament at Rhinelander and they returned with the championship of the First Sub-District. The same year the men came home with the baseball championship of the First Sub-District. The team was in a fair way to capture the Sparta District championship when duty called them to another field of activity. On August 10, 1936, ninety enrollees, under the leadership of First Lieut. Miles J. Krug and several National Park Service foremen, left Camp Peninsular bound for Isle Royale to fight forest fires raging there. Forty enrollees were transferred from Camp Madison to Camp Peninsular to take the places of the fire fighters until their return. In September, 1936, the detail returned from Isle Royale, resuming their regular duties.

          The camp was called to fight another fire in the neighborhood of Sturgeon Bay during the latter part of August.

          The projects in the park are numerous, most of the work consisting of the building and improvement of roads, trails, guard rails, picnic tables, and bench combinations, observation towers, also general improvement of camp sites and bathing beaches.

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