Pine Island settler relocation and development project records, 1936-1954.

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Pine Island settler relocation and development project records, 1936-1954.

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Records of this resettlement and development project, including annual reports (1940-1944), project files documenting the overall organization and operation of the project and the individual types of jobs involved (1936-1940), and miscellaneous files, mainly dealing with inventory (1940-1950). The project included work on farmstead obliteration, tree planting and timber harvest, fire fighting and fire hazard reduction, truck and foot trail and dam construction and maintenance, lake, pond and stream development, and road, firebreak, telephone line, fire tower, airfield, and forestry building maintenance.

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Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts

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