Deer Creek Dam, CCC Government Camp, Brick Residence No. 1, 584 Feet/308° from intersection of camp access road and U.S. Highway 189, 224 feet/180° from Deer Creek, Charleston

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The government camp for Civilian Conservation Corps workers was established southwest of the Deer Creek Dam site in and was disbanded in with the completion of the dam's construction. The CCC was a federal work program introduced by President F. D. Roosevelt's historic New Deal plan in as a response to massive unemployment spurred by the Great Depression. The CCC workers housed at the Deer Creek camp played a major role in the construction of the Deer Creek Dam and the Provo River Project at large. They provided labor for railroad and highway reconstruction; dismantling of the old railroad grade and structures; clearing of the damsite and other project lands; and manual labor on the construction projects themselves, such as hand excavation and form building at the dam.

The Deer Creek Dam was constructed as the key structure of the Bureau of Reclamation's Provo River Project, the largest water resource development project Deer Creek Dam, CCC Government Camp, Brick Residence A HABS No. UT-137-A (page 2) undertaken in Utah. It was the second largest earth fill dam constructed by Reclamation at the time, and Reclamation's first project intended to provide domestic water. The Provo River Project followed a precedent of 40 Federal reclamation projects that had been or were nearly completed by Its construction was during a significant period of accelerated American infrastructure development founded on technological investment intended to make the West a sustainable, viable, and profitable landscape.

The CCC workers housed at the Deer Creek camp played a significant role toward these ends. For additional information regarding the construction of the Deer Creek Dam, refer to "Deer Creek Dam," HAER No. UT-93. Project Statement: This HABS project was undertaken by the Utah Department of Transportation in order to document the historic features of the camp prior to the realignment and improvement of U. S. Highway 189 in the area. Preparation for construction of the project's Deer Creek portion has been underway since the and the work is expected to begin in The field work, site plan, historical reports, and photographs were prepared by Alpine Archaeological Consultants, Inc., Montrose, Colorado. Jonathon C.

Horn served as the Principal Investigator, and Gianfranco Archimede conducted the fieldwork, historic research, large-format photography, and report preparation.

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Gianfranco Archimede, Alpine Archaeological Consultants, Inc., April Deer Creek Dam, CCC Government Camp, Brick Residence A HABS No. UT-137-A (page 3) Brick Residence A is one of two identical three-bedroom houses constructed by government contract in 1 The same contract called for installation of a large corrugated sheet metal shed that was moved from another site and was removed sometime after as part of the U.S. Highway 189 relocation project. Residence A is a one-story common-bond brick structure with a full basement, measuring 20 by 40-feet, oriented generally east to west, with a covered entry porch central on the north side.

The main structure is covered by a tin shingle-patterned gable roof with plain boxed closed cornices and fascias and small louvered vents high in the gable ends. The single stack brick chimney is just east of center on the south slope of the roof just off the ridge. The 4 by 14-foot (oriented east-west) poured concrete entry porch is covered by a projecting gable roof having vertical board siding with imbricated ends in the gable. The roof is supported by 4 by 4-inch wooden posts. The porch is accessed by four concrete steps on the west end of the north side. Iron railings are on either side of the steps and around the porch perimeter. The main entry is west of center on the north elevation within the covered porch.

To the east of the entrance is a three vertical light, fixed wood sash window. Flanking the entry porch to the west is a large, fixed wood sash picture window with vertical lights to each side. To the east is a two vertical light, fixed wood sash window. A side entrance is on the north end of the east elevation, covered by a projecting self-supported shed roof. Four concrete steps lead southward up to a 3 by 4-foot poured concrete stoop. The steps and porch are enclosed by iron railings. Both the front and side entry are accessed by concrete walkways leading from the residential loop road. The remainder of the fenestration on the ground floor level is regular, being one-over-one, double hung, wood sash with brick slipsills.

The east elevation has two windows regularly spaced south of the side entry; the west elevation has three windows regularly spaced; and the south elevation has a pair of windows at the center of the elevation with single windows regularly spaced on either side. The concrete basement projects about 2 feet above grade. Regularly- spaced, two vertical light, fixed wood sash windows are present through the top of the basement walls on the south, east, and west sides. 1 U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Project History: Provo River Project- Utah, Deer Creek Division, Vol. XX, submitted by E. 0. Larson, Construction Engineer (Provo: UT: Bureau of Reclamation), p.