CONSERVATION DEPARTMENT: FORESTRY DIVISION:
An Inventory of Its Pine Island Settler Relocation and Development Project Records at the Minnesota Historical Society
Government Records
OVERVIEW
| Creator: | Minnesota. Division of Forestry. | |
| Title: | Pine Island Settler Relocation and Development Project Records. | |
| Dates: | 1936-1954. | |
| Language: | Materials in English. | |
| Abstract: | Records of this resettlement and development project, including annual reports (1940-1944), project files documenting the overall organization and operation of the project and the individual types of jobs involved (1936-1940), miscellaneous files, mainly dealing with inventory (1940-1950), and camp plot and site plans (1936-1941). The project included work on farmstead obliteration, tree planting and timber harvest, fire fighting and fire hazard reduction, truck and foot trail and dam construction and maintenance, lake, pond and stream development, and road, firebreak, telephone line, fire tower, airfield, and forestry building maintenance. | |
| Quantity: | 3.2 cubic feet (3 boxes and 1 partial oversize box) | |
| Location: | See Detailed Description for shelf locations. |
HISTORICAL NOTE
The Pine Island Civilian Conservation Corp camp was established on June 21, 1933 and operated until August 1934. The site sat idle until January 1935, when it became a transient camp under the Work Project Administration (WPA) and State Emergency Relief Administration. On May 15, 1936, it was placed under the United States Department of Agriculture's Resettlement Administration, as Project LD-MN4, the Northern Minnesota Pine Island Settler Relocation Project. The purpose of the project was to purchase 25,000 acres of cut-over and virgin land on which a comprehensive development program would be carried out with a view to applying the most approved practices in forestry and wildlife. The project area was transferred to the Farm Security Administration on June 30, 1937 and to the Soil Conservation Service in November 1938. On June 30, 1940, the area was placed under the United States Forest Service, which transferred its operation to the Minnesota Conservation Department's Forestry Division under a 50-year lease. Much of the work done in the area during the 1930s and early 1940s was done by WPA workers.
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Availability:
The collection is open for research use.
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Minnesota. Division of Forestry. Pine Island Settler Relocation and Development Project Records. Minnesota Historical Society.
See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.
Accession Information:
Accession numbers: None; 2019-56
Processing Information:
Catalog ID number: 990017367190104294
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
| 127.I.19.11B | Annual reports, 1940-1954. 8 volumes: | ||||||||||
| Typewritten reports detailing the annual progress on the project, including historical information, financial data, monthly narrative reports, and physical inventories, including equipment issued to the WPA and worn out equipment to be released. | |||||||||||
| 1940-1941. | |||||||||||
| 1941-1942. | |||||||||||
| 1942-1943. | |||||||||||
| 1943-1944. | |||||||||||
| 1944-1945. | |||||||||||
| 1945-1946. | |||||||||||
| 1946-1947. | |||||||||||
| 1947-1954. | |||||||||||
| Project files, 1936-1940: | |||||||||||
| Annual files, organized with general materials first, followed by individual jobs files, in numerical order by job number. The general files include correspondence, reports, proposals, work plans, budgets, and surveys. The job files contain data on work done on farmstead obliteration, bridges, contact buildings, lookout towers, ranger stations, dams, telephone lines, construction camps, airfields, truck and foot trails, firebreaks, fire hazard reduction, tree planting, timber harvest, public camp and picnic grounds development, lake, pond, and stream development, and photography. | |||||||||||
| 1936-1937. 85 folders. | |||||||||||
| 127.I.19.12F | 1937-1938. 23 folders. | ||||||||||
| 1938-1939. 58 folders. | |||||||||||
| 1939-1940. 21 folders. | |||||||||||
| 127.I.19.13B | 1939-1940. 64 folders. | ||||||||||
| Miscellaneous, 1940-1950. 7 folders: | |||||||||||
| Lumber and sale of lumber, 1941-1942. | |||||||||||
| Original checklists on “Exhibit C,” 1940. | |||||||||||
| Concerns equipment of the SCS available to the state for administration and operation of Pine Island. | |||||||||||
| Correspondence in connection with "Exhibit C," 1940-1950. | |||||||||||
| Concerns the aforementioned equipment. | |||||||||||
| Property losses, 1940-1947. | |||||||||||
| Inventory of expendable properties issued to the WPA, 1941. | |||||||||||
| Inventory as of June 1, 1941. | |||||||||||
| Property receipts, August 1, 1941. | |||||||||||
| WPA materials transferred from Pine Island to Norris Camp. | |||||||||||
| 126.G.3.4 | Pine Island camp plot plans and site plans, 1936-1941. | ||||||||||
| Plans (photocopies) for the Big Falls Camp, Center Camp and Popple Camp depicting outlines of structures, power lines, sewer lines, water lines, roads and other features. | |||||||||||
RELATED MATERIAL
CATALOG HEADINGS
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
- Topics:
- Dams -- Minnesota -- Arrowhead Region -- Construction and design.
- Dams -- Minnesota, North Central -- Construction and design.
- Fire lookout stations -- Minnesota -- Arrowhead Region -- Maintenance and repair.
- Fire lookout stations -- Minnesota, North Central -- Maintenance and repair.
- Forest fires -- Prevention and control -- Minnesota -- Arrowhead Region.
- Forest fires -- Prevention and control -- Minnesota, North Central.
- Forest management -- Minnesota -- Arrowhead Region.
- Forest management -- Minnesota, North Central.
- Lake conservation -- Minnesota -- Arrowhead Region.
- Lake conservation -- Minnesota, North Central.
- Logging -- Minnesota -- Arrowhead Region.
- Logging -- Minnesota, North Central.
- Ponds -- Conservation -- Minnesota -- Arrowhead Region.
- Ponds -- Construction -- Minnesota, North Central.
- Roads -- Minnesota -- Arrowhead Region -- Maintenance and repair.
- Roads -- Minnesota, North Central -- Maintenance and repair.
- Runways (Aeronautics) -- Minnesota -- Arrowhead Region -- Maintenance and repair.
- Runways (Aeronautics) -- Minnesota, North Central -- Maintenance and repair.
- Stream conservation -- Minnesota -- Arrowhead Region.
- Stream conservation -- Minnesota, North Central.
- Telephone lines -- Minnesota -- Arrowhead Region -- Maintenance and repair.
- Telephone lines -- Minnesota, North Central -- Maintenance and repair.
- Trails -- Minnesota -- Arrowhead Region -- Construction and design.
- Trails -- Minnesota, North Central -- Construction and design.
- Tree planting -- Minnesota -- Arrowhead Region.
- Tree planting -- Minnesota, North Central.
- Wildlife management -- Minnesota -- Arrowhead Region.
- Wildlife management -- Minnesota, North Central.
- Organizations:
- Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.). Minnesota District.
- Minnesota Emergency Relief Administration.
- Minnesota Work Projects Administration.
- United States. Resettlement Administration. Land Utilization Division.
- United States. Farm Security Administration.
- United States. Forest Service.
- Places:
- Baudette (Minn.)
- Document Types:
- Inventories.
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