CPS Camp Number 056

CPS Camp Number 056

Technical Agency: Forest Service

Summary:

CPS Camp No. 56, a Forest Service camp located very close to the ocean at Waldport, Oregon and operated by the Brethren Service Committee, opened in October 1942 and closed in April 1946. The men fought fires, worked to prevent them and maintained equipment, roads and trails. During 1943-44 the men created a School for Fine Arts.

CPS Camp No. 56, Waldport Oregon.
George Romine, from Kansas, at camp sign.
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CPS Camp No. 56
CPS Camp No. 56, Waldport Oregon.
Kermit Sheets, left, David Jackson, director, center; Maude Langley, right; Aria da Capo rehearsal & set.
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CPS Camp # 56
CPS Camp # 56 Waldport, Oregon
Coastal scene, 7 miles south of camp
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CPS Camp # 56
CPS Camp # 56, Waldport, Oregon
Don Kimmel at fine arts loom
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CPS Camp # 56
CPS Camp # 56 Waldport, Oregon
Bruce Reeves, photographer
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CPS Camp # 56
CPS Camp # 56 Waldport, Oregon
Glen Evans at fine arts pottery wheel
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CPS Camp # 56
CPS Camp # 56 Waldport, Oregon
"Snags"
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CPS Camp # 56
CPS Camp # 56 Waldport, Oregon
Theater 1 "Marchbanks: Would you talk about indifferent things if a child were by, crying bitterly with hunger?" from Act II of Candida by George Bernard Shaw.
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CPS Camp # 56
CPS Camp # 56, Waldport Oregon.
CPS Camp buildings, typical of many CPS camps, which were orginally built as part of the AMerican Civilian Conservation Corps program during the Depression. This particular camp was administered by the Church of the Brethren. On the back of the photograph is wrtten "CPS Camps, Mennonite Community Association, Scottsdale, Pennsylvania." The photo might have been published in Mennonite Community, and was used by Al Keim in the book: The CPS Story, 1990.
Digital image, Photo #5. Box 1, folder 3. MCC Photographs, Civilian Public Service, 1941-1947. IX-13-2.2. Mennonite Central Committee Photo Archive
West Coast CPS Directors
West Coast CPS Directors
Directors of the West Coast CPS programs. Dick Mills, director of Camp 56, is in the back row, second from left.
Lewis and Clark Digital Collections, Special Collections, Henry and Mary Blocher Collection
Date: 1943

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Units:

* Map shows general location of units

  • Location: Waldport, Oregon | Opened: October 1942 | Closed: April 1946