CAMP HISTORY

Company 460, CCC, was organized at Cornelia, Georgia, District "B," in June, 1933, with First Lieut. H. L. Fuller as Commanding Officer and First Lieut. W. A. Cauthen as Junior Officer.  These two officers organized the company and buit the camp.

Under the Forestry Department the work project at Cornelia was building trails, roads and towers.  Mr. L. M Oliver was Project Superintendent.

The company was moved from Cornelia, Georgia, on May 9, 1934, to Camp GA. NM-1, on Cockspur Island, eighteen miles east of Savannah, Georgia.  At this new location the work project was carried on by the National Park Service under the United States Department of the Interior.  The company was now in District "F," CCC.

The main project on Cockspur Island was the restoration of Fort Pulaski as a National Monument.  Dykes were constructed and roads were built to facilitate the work of restoration.  Enrollees built the highway from the bridge across the south channel of the Savannah River to Fort Pulaski.  Enrollees also built a parking area at the monument for vistitors.  Work was carried on under Mr. Ralston B. Lattimore, Monument Superintendent, and Mr. S. P. Kehoe, Jr., Project Superintendent.

In April, 1937, a side camp was established at Bacon Park in Savannah, GA.  The work of the side camp was to develop the Robert Fechner Recreational Area.

In May, 1937, District "F," CCC, was disbanded and this company was transferred to the administrative jurisdiction of District "I,", CCC, with headquarters at Fort Moultri, South Carolina.

Many changes took place during the time the enrollees were stationed at Fort Pulaski.  It was not until 1935 that a truck was brought from the mainland to the island.  previous to that time all supplies and equipment had to be hauled by wheelbarrows from the dock over a mile away.   The old fort was almost inaccessible in 1934, but by 1938, hundreds of people   visted the Fort each month.  The bridge from the mainland was completed in 1938, after four years of hard work by the enrollees.

Many men who were members of Camp 460, after being discharged, occupied positions of responsibility in civilian life, for which the training received at camp aided materially in preparing them.

Camp 460 had approximately seventeen commanding officers between 1934 and 1938.  This was considered a good record that very few companies achieved.  The Commanding Officers were:  Lieut. H. E. Fuller, Capt. W.H. Phillips, Capt. Kenneth W. Lunn, Lieut. Curt E. Bearden, Capt. Thomas H. Jones, Capt. Hobart T. Hancock, Capt. Frank G. Marshall, Lieut. Andrew B. Padgett, Lieut. W. H. Copeland, Capt. Bernard O'Neil, Capt. Thomas H. Hart, Lieut. Harvey W. Regan, Capt. Major R. Anderson, Lieut. Edwin D. Bacon, Lieut. James L. Valliant, and Capt. Lawrence R. Bennett, and Lieut. William J. McComb.