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Camp Ashdown (CCC camp P-72)

Ashdown, Little River County

A Civilian Conservation Corps camp in Ashdown, Little River County, where young men lived and worked protecting private forest land from fire from 1935 to 1939. It housed Companies 3793-C and 746. Companies marked “C” were the Corps' segregated African American companies.

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Kind of place
CCC camps
Built by
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
When
1935 to 1939
Where
Ashdown, Little River County
Still there?
Not confirmed lately

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Sources

Part of Rediscovering Arkansas’s New Deal, a public map of 1930s New Deal work across all 75 counties. Updated 2026-10-14.