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| Field Trip to Mt. Herman | |||||||||||||||
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| Wow, what great weather we had for our hike at Mt. Herman. We have some great pictures to share with those who couldn't make it on the hike. In addition to just enjoying the hike, we learned about the ruins and more of our community's heritage. Did you know that Mt. Herman was named for Herman Schwanbeck, an early Monument homesteader. His homestead was where the Village Inn stands now. Double click on a picture to make it larger. |
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| The ruins of the Civilian Conservation Corps tent city. This might have been their food storage area. The CCC established this camp in the mid-1930's. In addition to building roads, the CCC worked in the nursery and were given schooling. Most of the young men at this camp came from Texas and Massachusetts. | |||||||||||||||
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| This house ruin complete with chimney, food storage area, and basement was really cool. We don't know who lived here for sure. Perhaps it was the ranch house for the rancher who also had the horse jumps and wells or maybe it was the mouse-proof extractory house where they had a system for extracting seeds from pine cones. The pine cones were collected from squirrel hoards. But, don't worry, they weren't cruel to the squirrels because they never took more than half! | |||||||||||||||
| Mt Herman page 2 Troop Home Page |
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