Issac and the family moved to Camp Creek in 1901.
Stories & Documents
The First Train By Charles E. Brooks
Photo above: Des Arc Street & Church After we moved to Upper Camp Creek, Des Arc was our “town”, It was a big day when I […] Read More
The Thing That God Never Saw
The above image is the original build of the Peach Tree Church. During most of the years that we lived on the Old Farm, we […] Read More
We say “Good Bye” to the Farm and Move to Brunot by Fred Brooks
To leave this environment [Camp Creek] when only eleven years old was a heart breaking experience. I had not been aware that such a move […] Read More
My Ten Years on Upper Camp Creek by Fred Brooks
Any child who has the good fortune to have older sisters and brothers, some of them young adults, is in a most unique position. He […] Read More
Enchanting Mountains By Charles E. Brooks
In my growing-up “years”, one of the most enchanting things about my Wayne County home was the mountains. They are relatively small mountains, but many […] Read More
Social and Family Life By Charles E. Brooks
In this sophisticated, mechanized age none but some who are classed as II senior citizens are likely to remember ever having attended pea hullings. Pea […] Read More
Fishing and Snakes By Charles E. Brooks
When I was a boy. Fishing and swimming were chief summer pastimes. The word. “pastime” might give a wrong connotation; farm boys of that day […] Read More
Prepare For 1906 By Charles E. Brooks
In the early summer of 1905 word got around our neighborhood that a man near Taskee had captured a large rattlesnake, which had the words, […] Read More
Estella’s Autobiography: 1903, Childhood, Part 2
[One of my teachers at Camp Creek School was] Anna McAllister. She was a cousin of our first teacher James Wilkinson and lived in the […] Read More
Charlie Remembers… Life in Early Wayne County
Pictured Above: THE KIMMEL SCHOOL on Upper Camp Creek about 1902. Some of the pupils were absent because of scarlet fever, including Millard Brooks, Virgie Brooks […] Read More
Early School Days By Charles E. Brooks
The autumn following my fifth birthday which was in March. I remember some talk in our family about starting me to school. But I was […] Read More
The Camp Creek Schools
By: Charles E. Brooks Upper Camp Creek School known in the early days as Kimmel School, was an old school, perhaps one of the oldest […] Read More
Fred’s Story
No one has the privilege of choosing the time or place of his birth. Perhaps there are those who would have preferred a different time […] Read More
Estella’s Autobiography: 1900, The Move to Camp Creek
I was going on eleven years old when the great catastrophe came, that of going to the farm and leaving our wonderful home and friends. […] Read More