Gone But Not Forgotten, The Great Depression
The government established Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camps to do such things as erosion control. Dockery Park was chosen to house the 250 workers in the Gallatin, MO, area. To get ready for the workers, a ‘mess house’ was erected, bath houses were...
Gone But Not Forgotten, The Great Depression
Daviess County was plagued with bootleggers in the early 20th Century. One example of bootlegging was found in 1924 when a liquor raid uncovered a bootlegger site containing four stills, 21 barrels of mash, 30 5-gallon jugs, 100 1-gallon jugs, and seven gallons of...