Camp Renaissance was Civilian Conservation Corps

Civilian Conservation Corps

The Civilian Conservation Corps was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families, ages 18–25. A part of the New Deal of President Franklin D...

 camp NP-2 that was established on March 10, 1933, in the Gettysburg Battlefield

Gettysburg Battlefield

The Gettysburg Battlefield is the area of the July 1–3, 1863, military engagements of the Battle of Gettysburg within and around the borough of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Locations of military engagements extend from the 4 acre site of the first shot & at on the west of the borough, to East...

's Pitzer Woods

Pitzer Woods

Pitzer Woods was used during the Battle of Gettysburg and for Gettysburg Battlefield camps after the American Civil War.-History:Pitzer Woods was the site of July 1st & 2nd fighting on the 1863 Gettysburg Battlefield. The Civilian Conservation Corps established the June 15, 1933, Pitzer Woods CCC...

 for reforestation (all 45 tents were blown down by a July 2 "twister"). On September 22, 1933, Captain Moran transferred to Camp Renaissance to become the Company 1332 commander, (his 1934 Company 385 of 199 workers was named the best camp/unit in subdistrict 8). The camp with Company #385-C) in Pitzer Woods closed in April 1937 (Frank J. Slonaker, former president of the battlefield guide association

Gettysburg National Military Park

The Gettysburg National Military Park is an administrative unit of the National Park Service's northeast region and a subunit of federal properties of Adams County, Pennsylvania, with the same name, including the Gettysburg National Cemetery...

,http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1cElAAAAIBAJ&sjid=HPwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1807,801305&dq=frank-slonaker&hl=en had been the camp's service officer).http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=OIklAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ufIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5304,4630680&dq=francis-moran+gettysburg&hl=en

The Pitzer Woods site was subsequently used for a July 5-9, 1941, encampment of the 71st Coast Artillery Regiment (Anti-Aircraft);http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=MIslAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wPIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1810,3882108&dq=1941+coast-artillery+gettysburg+camp&hl=en http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Ku8lAAAAIBAJ&sjid=LfwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2720,1812230&dq=1941+coast-artillery+gettysburg+camp&hl=en for a July 28, 1941, 68th Coast Artillery (AA) day camp;http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=QO8lAAAAIBAJ&sjid=LfwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4770,2953453&dq=1941+coast-artillery+gettysburg+camp&hl=en and for the 1943-4 Camp Sharpe

Camp Sharpe

Camp Sharpe was a World War II military installation on the Gettysburg Battlefield that trained soldiers for psychological operations in the European Theater of Operations Camp Sharpe was a World War II military installation on the Gettysburg Battlefield that trained soldiers for psychological...

training installation.