Thirty-nine (39) companies were organized and assigned to the Arkansas District. After conditional periods at Camp Pike, Jefferson Barracks, Fort Des Moines and Fort Lincoln, the companies were assigned to the thirty-nine approved work projects of the District. Most of the camp sites were hard to identify from the surrounding area of towering trees and closely knitted underbrush. The men under the direction of regular Army Officers, assisted by four tough, but efficient regular Army non-commissioned officers, began the clear of the camp site. Tents were put up, Army field ranges set up to cook the “chow” and the small tent communities began to take on form. These were the first camps, and out of this beginning has come the beautiful camps located in the Arkansas District at present time.”
pg 9 of 1937 CCC Annual, Arkansas District, Seventh Corps Area