Lucy Lepper Shaw

The camp the panel credits to Lucy Lepper Shaw opened in 1936, when the National Youth Administration took over the empty CCC camp built here in 1934. Renamed Camp Capitan, it taught girls from rural New Mexico and Arizona sewing, embroidery and other skills, and the girls themselves built a fireplace and chimney and dug their own swimming pool. It closed in 1940 for lack of money. Two years later the same buildings held the Japanese American families removed from Clovis. The panel's second face, which carries the rest of its text, has not been photographed.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lincoln Historic Site — 3.9 mi
  One street of adobe in the Bonito valley kept much as it was in the 1870s, where the Lincoln County War was fought over who would supply Fort Stanton and the Mescalero agency.
• Smokey Bear Historical Park — 8.1 mi
  The small park in Capitan where the living Smokey Bear is buried, a cub found clinging to a burned tree in the Capitan Mountains in 1950, six years after the cartoon was invented.

More markers nearby

• Raton Ranch — steps away
• Eve Ball (1890-1984) — 2.6 mi
• Lincoln — 3.5 mi
• Lincoln — 4.5 mi