Argil Rexroad (Duck, W.Va.) and Charles Ault (Pansy, W.Va.) in front of the sign that reads: “CCC Camp Price P-68 Company 2598.” This Civilian Conservation Corps camp was established in July 1935 in Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park under the supervision of the West Virginia Conservation Commission and the U. S. Forest Service. Camp Price was named in honor of The Pocahontas Times Editor Calvin W. Price. Droop Mountain Battlefield was the first state park in West Virginia, having been dedicated on July 4, 1928. (Droop Mountain Collection, Courtesy of Mike Smith, Former Supt. Droop Mt. Battlefield State Park; ID: PHP000085)
Selected photographs in the “Preserving Pocahontas” Digital Library may be found at pocahontaspreservation.org/omekan or preservingpocahontas.org
If you have photographs or documents to be scanned for the county Historical Archive contact Preservation Officer B. J. Gudmundsson at 304-799-3989 or email info@pocahontaspreservation.org Prints of photographs from the archives are available.
