Hauling turpentine in the Canoe area early in the last century. It has been said this photo was taken in what is now the parking lot of Baker's Service Station.
The 1930s were hard times for many Americans. Wall Street had crashed, and the nation was in the depths of the Great Depression. The government sought desperately to put people back to work as in many jobs had disappeared overnight. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal sought to restore confidence and create economic security through a host of projects.
The effects of those projects can be seen today. Little River State Park was a Civilian Conservation Corps project, whereby young men from around the country came to the park and carved it out of the piney woods. Yet it was by no means th...
