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NP-1 Projects The Park provided excellent training opportunities for the enrollees. Inside the cave they installed concrete steps and an indirect lighting system, repaired the tour trails, helped sink a 208 foot elevator shaft, and began a cave survey. On the surface they sloped road banks, built a fence around the park to contain wildlife, built fire trails, planted hundreds of trees, built concrete reservoirs, remodeled park buildings, landscaped the Head-quarters area, and occasionally fought forest fires. Other CCC Opportunities The Corps was not all work. The Wind Cave baseball team won the South Lakota State Champion- ships in 1935 and 1936. Music instructor and park superintendent’s wife, Mrs. E. Dixon Freeland, organized the Wind Cave Quartet. The music group became well known throughout the Black Hills. Several different academic and vocational evening classes were offered. Many enrollees earned their high school diplomas and gained valuable work skills.
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