Y.. Skunk Creek Road and Oak Creek School

Neil Vanderburg: I don't think we have to worry about seeing Bill Wheeler walking on this road, because they do their walking about 8:30 in the morning.

Bob Zybach: Seen plenty of other people, though. Seen four or five hikers and ten or twelve bikers.

Neil Vanderburg: Looks to me like somebody's walking their dogs, too.

X. The Oak Creek Gate

Bob Zybach: Quite a few people out here for having locked gates.

Neil Vanderburg: That's what Garver was telling me, that he just can't believe the people that come up in here.

Bob Zybach: There's an old orchard right through here and the beaver have been knocking the trees down left and right.

Neil Vanderburg: The beaver, you say?

Bob Zybach: Yep. You can see it down through there, you can see some of the trees we've flagged there. But some of the others down there . . . you can see the pond right there.

Neil Vanderburg: Yeah. Of course there wasn't any beavers when I came here.

Neil Vanderburg: This is probably the gate right here.

Bob Zybach: A metal gate? And you think that was there?

Neil Vanderburg: I think that was probably the gate we were worried about but it was open.

Bob Zybach: Right at the end of the.

Neil Vanderburg: I think that was a private gate, I don't know for sure.

Bob Zybach: You don't recall any houses or anything?

Neil Vanderburg: There was no houses up here. We drove the cattle down this way for quite a ways before we got into any sign of any habitation at all.

Bob Zybach: Do you recognize anything through here at all?

Neil Vanderburg: No, we didn't see any sign of habitation for. . . I can't figure those buildings being CCC buildings.

Bob Zybach: And not having been here when you came through?

Neil Vanderburg: Yeah.

Bob Zybach: That's something I'm kind of curious about too. That's why I was asking.

Neil Vanderburg: We didn't see any habitation until we got down here into the farming area.

Bob Zybach: Well, Royal Jackson asked Edward Sekermestrovich about that vely thing, and he said that he couldn't remember them building any buildings, and he was in the CCC's until the '40s.

Neil Vanderburg: Well, now, maybe I was a little bit turned around here. Is this the road here that goes on up to the old post road?

Bob Zybach: No. This one might be a development. That one I think is a little further down here.

Neil Vanderburg: Yeah, that's right.

Y. Skunk Creek Road and Oak Creek School

Bob Zybach: We were just at Tanager, and I think it's called Skunk Creek Road.

Neil Vanderburg: But it was down in about here before we saw any signs of habitation. Where it started to widen out here.

Bob Zybach: There's Skillings Road, I think that's a fairly old road.