C C CAMP

Compliments of Vera Wood(s) Weaver

Johnny Robert Wood

Died June 1964 at age 47

Mr. Johnny Robert Wood(s) ran the CC camp. He was a mechanical genius.
He could work on and fix anything that ran on four tires. He reported to George
Ratcliff, the office manager.

To the right as you drove in the driveway on a hill, was where the office staff
worked. There was a beautiful goldfish pond on a grassy knoll right outside where
the office staff worked. They could look out their office windows and watch the fish
swimming. They could take their lunches out and sit around the pool and eat tranquilly,
enjoying the beauty, the peace and their own quiet self time and thoughts. In the
wintertime, when the fish pond froze over, you could still see the fish swimming under
the ice. How they survived so many cold winters, I will never know.

Towards the fairgrounds there were rows of CC Camp tenement houses made of
green wood. Julius "Jude" Ahner and his wife lived there with their married daughter,
Mrs. Julius Lee Ahner. Lenora was married to Raymond Daniels, and they had a son
named Wally, and a daughter by the name of Brenda. I believe, but not sure, Mr. Ahner was allowed to live on the CC camp property because he was the caretaker of the camp.
Later the houses were torn down and the fairgrounds and trade school were built.

This house was a CC camp house but Dad had shingles placed on it when he purchased it.  This was on Constable Street.