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NCHS Bulletin April 2013
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The Scotts Flat camp appears at the upper right in this 1940 map. The body of water labeled “Scotts Flat Resvr” was known
for a while as “Lower Scotts Flat Lake,” but now is called Deer Creek Reservoir. (Map by C. A. Logan, Grass Valley and Nevada
City District Mining Engineer, from Report on Mines and Mineral Resources of Nevada County.)
rapid transport of the required building materials under the
direction of William Durbrow enabled the crews to work
quickly and complete construction before heavy storms interfered with the process. Trees cut on the site provided the
lumber needed to build two main buildings—administrative quarters and a commissary, each about 75 feet long.
Heavy-framed porches would be added on one side of each
building to withstand the heavy weather expected at that
elevation.
As Durbrow later explained, “We put up the buildings on
[the property] for the housing of the WPA and they cleared
the land without cost to us. We didn’t get any money. We
got labor. We ran a tunnel for Scotts Flat dam water delivery with the labor. All this work was done before we got
the money for building Scotts Flat [by selling bonds in the
mid-1940s].” The streets had been laid out and graveled.
Thirty or more house tents had been erected for sleeping
quarters, equipped with double-deck cots and large camp
stoves. Other buildings, including a community shower and
smaller structures, were underway. In addition the workers
had completed four miles of road to connect the camp with
the Tahoe-Ukiah highway near the Five-Mile House.
Over the next two years, as in any small community,
there would be accidents, injuries and illness, crime and
death. The population of the camp would go up and down.
From a high of 250 in July 1939 it would drop to 85 as men
were moved to other projects or dropped from the relief
rolls. In the latter month, 150 men were moved from the
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This 1950 map shows the
newly completed dam
and reservoir at Scotts
Flat. The earlier Scotts
Flat reservoir, built in
1928, is now labeled as
the “Deer Creek” reservoir. Later, in 1963-66,
the Scotts Flat dam was
raised and the reservoir
enlarged to its present
dimensions. (From U.S.
Dept. of the Interior
Geological Survey,
Alleghany Quadrangle.)