"Staff from the Michaux State Forest Kings Gap Environmental Education Center held a pair of guided tours Saturday at Camp Michaux at Pine Grove Furnance State Park in Cooke Township. During World War II, the camp was used as a prisoner of war camp to interrogate Japanese and German military officers.
Visitors were shown crumbling foundations of mess halls, a guard tower and flag pole, as well as POW and Third Service Command Corps insignia imprints in cement.
Prior to the war, the area was used for farming in the 18th century to provide food for workers at Pine Grove Furnace.
It was a Civilian Conservation Corps camp from 1933 to 1941, where young men came to do conservation work, and the site of summer church camps after the war and into the early 1970s."
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Tours held at former WWII POW camp
