H
is for
Hoover Camp
By Lindsay
(fifth grader, 1996/97 )
Hoover Camp
During the Great Depression people were out of work. Especially lumber jacks who became unemployed when the white pine was logged and the Virginia Rainy Lake Sawmill shut down.
The people who had no jobs and no where else to go lived in tar paper shacks on the west edge of Virginia. The people were very poor. They traded work for food if they could. Most of the people that died in Hoover Camp were buried in unmarked graves in the cemetery by Olcott Park.
Dr. Pearsall a, doctor in town, would go to their house and try his hardest to make them better. He would do his work for free. They had no money to pay him.
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MARCH 1997