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R         Mark Twain National Forest (Mo.).

471                  Local history collection, 1930s-1980s.

                                    One hundred nine files.

 

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This collection was selected from unofficial files on miscellaneous historical topics, includ­ing local histories, the CCC, the YCC, the “Irish Wilderness,” and the Eleven Point River.  There are transcriptions of interviews with “old-timers” and Forest Service retirees.

 

Land acquisition for what is now the Mark Twain National Forest began in 1933.  Even­tu­ally two National Forests were established in Missouri.  They were the Clark National Forest and the Mark Twain Nation­al Forest, which later combined under the single administration of the Mark Twain National Forest, with headquarters in Rolla.  Most of the Forest’s area is lo­cated south of the Missouri River in the Ozarks re­gion.

 

This collection was selected from a larger group of unofficial files on miscellaneous sub­jects which has been accumulated by the Forest over many years.  These specific files were se­lected for their historical research value.  Included are local histories, and material concerning the Civilian Conservation Corps, Youth Conservation Corps, the “Irish Wilderness,” the Eleven Point Na­tional Scenic River, watermills, Forest Service activities, and other topics.  There are also tran­scribed remi­niscences of “old timers” and Forest Service retirees, and sev­eral ver­sions of histories of the Forest itself.

 

 

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