MILLINOCKET — A CCC Remembrance Day will be held nearly 50 years after Depression-era Baxter Camp construction crews returned home, as those who recall the federal project gather from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 18, at the American Legion Hall.

A stone marker will be dedicated at 2 p.m. at the former campsite, now the Millinocket Airport. The project is one of two gatherings of former camp workers through the National Association of Civilian Conservation Corps Alumni.

The 193rd Company, CCC was stationed at Millinocket from 1933 to 1935. The barrack that once stood at the camp was built mostly by people from Millinocket and camp labor. Much of the conservation camp work involved building roads, trails, camping grounds and bridges in the Katahdin area and the Appalachian Trail.

Robert Chenevert, president of the conservation association, said that the objective of the organization has been to gather camp workers for reunions, to place markers at former campsites and to maintain a scholarship fund at Southern Maine Technical College in South Portland.

Information on the Millinocket reunion may be had from Robert Mott at 723-8235 or from Neal McQuarrie, 723-8612.

A second reunion is planned at Southern Maine Technical College. More information on that gathering is available from Robert Blair, 799-1230.