Source: Atlas Obscura
What began its life as part of a Depression-era work program later became the stage for what many call the worst massacre at a prisoner of war camp in United States history. Today, the site houses a museum remembering the historical events that occurred in the small Utah town.
On display are numerous artifacts and recreations of barracks and a guard tower that tell the story of the massacre that cemented the camp’s place in history.
During the height of the Great Depression, one of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal programs to help alleviate poverty was the Civilian Conservation Corps. Young, unemployed men were hired to provide manual labor on government worksites in exchange for a salary and free housing and meals.
When the United States joined World War II, however, Congress decided to end the program, believing it would be better to draft the unemployed men rather than have them do conservation work. As such, the CCC camp in Salina, Utah, and numerous…
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