Gypsy Heart
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No current residents,Some hunting camps,From Powell,Pa.Take rd following creek,
Bradford County, Pennsylvania
Latitude: 41.63222 : Longitude: -76.65111 : Elevation: 1380 ft
http://maps.google.com/?sll=41.63222,-76.65111&spn=0.05,0.05
Laquin was founded about 1902 as a LUMBER town, (although the ghost town of "Barclay" is nearby and it is an old coal mining town). The death of the town was from economics. When the forests played out and the mills could no longer be feed, the industry left and the people soon followed. A CCC camp was established here in the 1930's but this would be abandoned and by 1941 Laquin was a ghost. Population at one time probably approached 2000, maybe more. There are abundant traces of the town today, though the last building disappeared sometime in the 1960's. The main street still exists as the major access road, and once sported a hotel, two churches, a school, a boarding house, store, depot, town building and several homes. Across the street were several mills --all associated with the lumber industry, railroad tracks, a mill pond -- even a baseball field. All gone! The site contains numerous foundations, however, usually amidst the brush. Watch out for rattlesnakes! The site is located in the narrow valley of Schrader Creek, which is in southern Bradford County, PA It is nothing but vast wilderness and mountains all around, as the area has re-forested since the hey days of this community. The site is currently owned by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and is administered as "State Game Lands".
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Tavern at Towanda
Company 1377, Camp S-103-PA, Laquin, Pa.
We Had A CCC Camp at Laquin,Pa. Hope I spelled it right. They would make a long truck trip to Towanda, Pa. on a Saturday night to the Taverns for relaxation. I am seventy four and was real small when the CCC camps were there. They had uniforms like the US Army and wore the old Campaign Hats. You would call them Smokey The Bear Hats, however the Army would call them Campaign Hats. Marine Drill Instructors wear them today. The Army should have kept them.
Most of them were southerners and were a great bunch. I was about twelve at the time and this would have been about 1939. My Grandmother ran the tavern and they would come in the Tavern, and they would treat me as a brother.
During that period it was The Great Depression and that is why President Roosevelt instituted the CCC. They sent money home to their families to help out and I believe they were paid $30.00 per month.
Curator's Note, From the NACCCA records this is clearly Camp S-103, and from the time frame it is Company 1377, the third company at that camp, the others being 387 in 1933 and 5464 in 1936.
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More pics
http://www.flickr.com/groups/barclaymountain/
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Barclay Mountain Laquin book on ebay now....
http://cgi.ebay.com/BARCLAY-MOUNTAI...ptZUS_Nonfiction_Book?_trksid=p3286.m20.l1116
Bradford County, Pennsylvania
Latitude: 41.63222 : Longitude: -76.65111 : Elevation: 1380 ft
http://maps.google.com/?sll=41.63222,-76.65111&spn=0.05,0.05
Laquin was founded about 1902 as a LUMBER town, (although the ghost town of "Barclay" is nearby and it is an old coal mining town). The death of the town was from economics. When the forests played out and the mills could no longer be feed, the industry left and the people soon followed. A CCC camp was established here in the 1930's but this would be abandoned and by 1941 Laquin was a ghost. Population at one time probably approached 2000, maybe more. There are abundant traces of the town today, though the last building disappeared sometime in the 1960's. The main street still exists as the major access road, and once sported a hotel, two churches, a school, a boarding house, store, depot, town building and several homes. Across the street were several mills --all associated with the lumber industry, railroad tracks, a mill pond -- even a baseball field. All gone! The site contains numerous foundations, however, usually amidst the brush. Watch out for rattlesnakes! The site is located in the narrow valley of Schrader Creek, which is in southern Bradford County, PA It is nothing but vast wilderness and mountains all around, as the area has re-forested since the hey days of this community. The site is currently owned by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and is administered as "State Game Lands".
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Tavern at Towanda
Company 1377, Camp S-103-PA, Laquin, Pa.
We Had A CCC Camp at Laquin,Pa. Hope I spelled it right. They would make a long truck trip to Towanda, Pa. on a Saturday night to the Taverns for relaxation. I am seventy four and was real small when the CCC camps were there. They had uniforms like the US Army and wore the old Campaign Hats. You would call them Smokey The Bear Hats, however the Army would call them Campaign Hats. Marine Drill Instructors wear them today. The Army should have kept them.
Most of them were southerners and were a great bunch. I was about twelve at the time and this would have been about 1939. My Grandmother ran the tavern and they would come in the Tavern, and they would treat me as a brother.
During that period it was The Great Depression and that is why President Roosevelt instituted the CCC. They sent money home to their families to help out and I believe they were paid $30.00 per month.
Curator's Note, From the NACCCA records this is clearly Camp S-103, and from the time frame it is Company 1377, the third company at that camp, the others being 387 in 1933 and 5464 in 1936.
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More pics
http://www.flickr.com/groups/barclaymountain/
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Barclay Mountain Laquin book on ebay now....
http://cgi.ebay.com/BARCLAY-MOUNTAI...ptZUS_Nonfiction_Book?_trksid=p3286.m20.l1116
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