Make the McKenzie Connection!
Make the McKenzie Connection!
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Cement pumping at Camp White Branch MCKENZIE BRIDGE: A Depression era development brought some 400 young men in the Civilian Conservation Corps to Camp Belknap in the spring of 1934. Many of the transplants - mainly from the Chicago and St. Louis areas - had never seen mountains before. But on January 1st of the following year the work they did resulted in an opening day celebration of the White Branch Lodge that drew a crowd of 1,200 celebrants. Over the years the site has been operated as an organizational camp serving church groups, Boy Scou...
