CANTON -- The St. Lawrence County Historical Association (SLCHA) has published the third issue of its 2015 Quarterly magazine with stories about a Civilian Conservation Camp and popular Hollywood Inn and Dude Ranch.

This issue includes a discussion of a Civilian Conservation Camp (CCC) that opened in New York in 1934 near Brasher Falls. The Great Depression had left New York’s forest and thousands of young men in bad shape. About 25% of citizens age 15 to 24 were unemployed, and the state’s forest was slow to recover from fires and heavy logging.

Noted Adirondack conservationist, Clarence Petty, was the first field supervisor of camp S-95, the Brasher Falls Camp. Young men and World War I veterans planted trees, dug water holes, built truck trails, fought forest fires and even built a toboggan slide on the Raquette River in Potsdam behind today’s residence of the SUNY college president. The young Petty noted the difficulty of controlling the hard-drinking older men. The camp was transferred to the Army in 1942, becoming a prisoner of war camp for 165 Italians. Buildings were removed by 1950.

Another article describes activities at the popular Hollywood Inn and Dude Ranch once located next to a quiet stretch of the Raquette River. The inn lay amidst a year-round and summer community on a dirt road midway between Potsdam and Tupper Lake, long before construction of the concrete Route 56 in the early 1930s. The site of much social activity and good meals now lies under the waters of the Carry Falls Reservoir.

Short biographies are given of the seven ministers of Potsdam’s Methodist Church who are buried in Bayside Cemetery. They range from Scotland-born Peter D. Gorrie (minister from 1849 to 1851) to the Rev.

William A. Caldwell who served from 1961 to 1976. Many will remember him and his talented wife, Doris, who taught kindergarten. Old “Postcards from Main Street” feature the Kennehan Agricultural Works in Brasher Falls, the Hepburn library in Colton, the hotel and store in Newton Falls and the Presbyterian Church in Star Lake.

Issues of the SLCHA Quarterly can be purchased at the Silas Wright House in Canton or received by subscription as a benefit of membership: $30 for individuals and $25 for seniors and students.

Info: 386-8133, info@slcha.org or visit www.slcha.org.