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16. Camp Buildings
16. Camp Buildings of Edward Sekermestrovich — printed p. 26 — recorded February 6, 1980 at Corvallis, Oregon. Every printed page has its own permanent link.
Jackson, Royal G. and Karen Thomas 1991. Edward Sekermestrovich. Life at CCC Camp Arboretum, Benton County, Oregon, 1935-1940. Soap Creek Valley History Project, Monograph #04. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 41 pp.
p. 47 = printed page 47 of the original book; the link on each page number is a permanent address you can send to anyone.
Provenance
- Narrator
- Edward Sekermestrovich
- Recorded
- February 6, 1980 · Corvallis, Oregon
- Interviewer
- Royal G. Jackson, Karen Thomas
- Printed pages
- p. 26
- Accessioned
- From Bob Zybach’s upload, 23 August 2026
Royal G. Jackson: Stayed up at Mac's place?
Edward Sekermestrovich: Yes, stayed up with Mac.
Royal G. Jackson: What kind of duties did he perform for Mac?
Edward Sekermestrovich: He done the shipping, load trees and stuff like that out.
Royal G. Jackson: Did some of the boys work in the nursery and ship out trees?
Edward Sekermestrovich: Oh, yes.
Royal G. Jackson: Planting trees?
Edward Sekermestrovich: Had acres and acres of them, yes.
Royal G. Jackson: Did they actually plant seedlings and did all the chores.
Edward Sekermestrovich: Oh, yes, they did all that. They don't do that anymore up there? They had rows and rows and rows of them.
Royal G. Jackson: What else did you do? You mentioned building roads, and blasting the quarry, and working on Calloway Dam. What other projects do you remember other than driving the ambulance and driving men around?
Edward Sekermestrovich: Forest fires. Anything like that came up, we'd go.
Royal G. Jackson: What about Oak Creek Guard Station?
Edward Sekermestrovich: I never went there. I don't know anything about it.
16. Camp Buildings
Royal G. Jackson: So they weren't working on that when you were there?
Edward Sekermestrovich: No.
Royal G. Jackson: How about any of the buildings at the Arboretum? Did the CCC boys help build any of those?
Edward Sekermestrovich: No, not that I know of.
Royal G. Jackson: So the camp was finished completely?
Edward Sekermestrovich: Well, no, they put the woodwork shop in last. They was building on that there while I was there. That was next to the nursery.
Royal G. Jackson: When you went out there a couple of weeks ago, how did you feel? What was your reaction? Sad, happy, surprised, what?
Edward Sekermestrovich: Well, I just didn't think much of them guys tearing down them nice buildings.
Speaker attribution inferred from typography where the printed page prints only Q and A.
How to cite this item
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- As printed
- Jackson, Royal G. and Karen Thomas 1991. Edward Sekermestrovich. Life at CCC Camp Arboretum, Benton County, Oregon, 1935-1940. Soap Creek Valley History Project, Monograph #04. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 41 pp.
- This page
- Sekermestrovich 1991. 16. Camp Buildings, p. 26. America's School Trust Library, The Zybach Collection. https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/m04-sekermestrovich/16-camp-buildings/ (accessed 2026).
- Cite this passage
- Sekermestrovich 1991, p. 26 — Monograph #04:26
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