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John Paul Bland, Cumberland County Historical Society, Foreword by Rick Atkinson

2006, 100 pages, Soft Cover

ISBN 0-9785645-1-0 $22.00

In Cooke township in southwestern Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, there is a 200-acre area that has been witness to a unique set of historical events over the past 220 years. This book focuses on the five-year period from 1942 – 1946 when a secret military operation as conducted there. The book also examines the other uses related to the site – an 18^th and 19^th century farm, the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps camp) and Camp Michaux, a church youth camp. Each of these events and uses is inextricably related to the previous activity at the site. None of the events that occurred during the 20^th century would have happened without the presence of the iron industry in the area in the 18^th  and 19^th centuries.