Civilian Public Service Unit (American Fork, Utah, USA)

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CPS unit #127, ca. 1945.
Scan courtesy of Mennonite Library and Archives, Bethel College, North Newton, KS: #2011-0016

American Fork, Utah, was the location of Mennonite Civilian Public Service Unit Number 127, which was established at the Utah Training School in January 1944 and closed in February 1946. It housed 650 children on a six hundred-acre farm. The fifteen men of the unit worked mainly on the farm, doing diversified tasks, including the maintenance of the grounds and the plant. A few spent most of their time doing attendant work with children.


Author(s) Melvin Gingerich
Date Published 1955

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Gingerich, Melvin. "Civilian Public Service Unit (American Fork, Utah, USA)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1955. Web. 12 Dec 2024. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Civilian_Public_Service_Unit_(American_Fork,_Utah,_USA)&oldid=163031.

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Gingerich, Melvin. (1955). Civilian Public Service Unit (American Fork, Utah, USA). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 12 December 2024, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Civilian_Public_Service_Unit_(American_Fork,_Utah,_USA)&oldid=163031.




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Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, p. 87. All rights reserved.


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