It is located off Beltrami County Highway 39, in Taylor Township, and is one of the best-preserved of the nation's many CCC camps.

Enrollees at the camp came mostly from Northern Minnesota and worked on projects within the Chippewa National Forest, such as building roads and other facilities, surveying, wildlife protection, and other forestry activities.

Most CCC camps were abandoned when the United States entered World War II, and most of them fell into disuse.

[5] In 1999, the United States Forest Service began a three-year effort to stabilize and restore the Education Building.

Throughout the next two years, a staff of 26 volunteers from the Forest Service's Passport in Time program spent nearly 1000 hours with general interior repairs.