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Civilian Conservation Corp Camp F-10
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
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Location	13381 Silver Mountain Road
Nearest city	Rapid City, South Dakota
Coordinates	43°56′48″N 103°22′53″W / 43.946652°N 103.381367°W / 43.946652; -103.381367
Area	3 acres (1.2 ha)
Built	1933 (1933)
Built by	Civilian Conservation Corps
Architectural style	CCC Affiliation
MPS	Federal Relief Construction in South Dakota MPS
NRHP reference No.	03001531
Added to NRHP	January 28, 2004

Civilian Conservation Corp Camp F-10, also called the Rockerville Civilian Conservation Corp Camp, is a historic district on Silver Mountain Road, 15 miles (24 km) southwest of Rapid City, South Dakota. Between 1933 and 1935, it functioned as a base camp for Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) workers who were employed on multiple construction and forestry projects in the area during the Great Depression. The camp was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004; three buildings and the remains of a fireplace are included in the listing.

History

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) operated in South Dakota during the Great Depression, building and maintaining structures and government property across the state. Temporary camps were constructed to accommodate the thousands of workers that passed through the program. The Rockerville area was chosen as a temporary base of operations for CCC Company 1794, who were mostly employed in Black Hills forestry maintenance for the United States Forest Service. Taska included bridge and dam construction, tree thinning, campsite and trail maintenance, and firefighting. The first camp buildings, including two officers' cabins and a hospital, were erected in 1933. Early CCC camps were usually log structures created from surrounding lumber and resources; by 1934, however, the federal government had introduced prefabricated parts to CCC campsite construction. This allowed buildings to easily be dismantled and moved to a new campsite or to be reused somewhere else. The camp eventually included 17 structures: four barracks that could sleep 50 men each, a recreation hall, mess hall, kitchen and cooks' barracks, a bathhouse, blacksmithing shop, garage, storage cabins, a water tower, and the aforementioned officers' cabins and hospital. Up to 175 men were stationed at Camp F-10 at its most populous.

In May 1935, Company 1794 was scheduled to be incorporated into Company 791, who were at that time based at Camp F-22 at Summit Peak. The Rockerville camp was abandoned—buildings that could be dismantled were taken with the company for use in the new camp—and sat unused for decades, causing most of the remaining structures to crumble. Today, only three log buildings stand: two officers' cabins and the hospital, plus a fireplace ruin that was once part of the mess hall. On January 28, 2004, a triangular historic district encompassing the surviving structures was added to the National Register of Historic Places. The site is now on private property.

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
2. ^ Nelson, Chris (October 20, 2003). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Civilian Conservation Corp Camp F-10". National Park Service. Retrieved February 13, 2022. With accompanying pictures

v t e National Register of Historic Places in Pennington County, South Dakota
National Historic Site	Minuteman Missile National Historic Site‡
Districts	Burlington and Quincy High Line Hill City to Keystone Branch Civilian Conservation Corp Camp F-10 Gramberg Ranch Josef and Marie Kudrna Homestead and Ranch Madison Ranch Mount Rushmore National Memorial Mystic Townsite Historic District Otho Mining District Rapid City Historic Commercial District Rapid City West Boulevard Historic District
Buildings	Commercial/ Industrial C.E. McEachron General Merchandise Calumet Hotel Casper Supply Company of SD Dean Motor Company Fairmont Creamery Company Building Gambrill Storage Building Harney Peak Hotel Harney Peak Tin Mining Company Buildings House and Sawmill Johnson Siding Keystone Trading Company Store Milwaukee Road Freight House Motor Service Company Nichols Funeral Home Building Rapid City Fruit Company Rapid City Garage Rapid City Laundry Sitting Bull Crystal Cavern Dance Pavilion Swander Bakery Building Von Woehrmann Building Education Keystone School Rapid City Carnegie Library Rapid City High School Rapid City Historical Museum Government/Civic Pennington County Courthouse Rapid City Masonic Temple Religious Chapel in the Hills Church of the Immaculate Conception Emmanuel Episcopal Church First Congregational Church Quinn Methodist Church Residential Black Hills Model Home Lewis Byron House Cassidy House Feigel House Golden Summit Mine Foreman's Cabin Zack Holmes House Pap Madison Cabin † Maurice Nelson House Michael Quinn House Glenn W. Shaw House
Objects	Dinosaur Park Wasta Rest Stop Tipis
Sites	Archeological Site No. 39PN376 Harney Peak Lookout Tower, Dam, Pumphouse and Stairway Site No. 39 PN 57 Site No. 39 PN 108 Site No. 39 PN 438 Site No. 39 PN 439
Structures	South Dakota Department of Transportation Bridge No. 52-575-383 South Dakota Department of Transportation Bridge No. 52-824-300
Footnotes	‡This historic property also has portions in an adjacent county. † This entry has been removed from the registry.
See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Pennington County, South Dakota and List of National Historic Landmarks in South Dakota

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