Each camp was assigned a meaningful task to improve the nation’s infrastructure. The Moscow Road CCC camp was outfitted to ...

Civilian Conservation Corps: Trailer. The CCC was President Roosevelt’s answer to the environmental and economic challenges facing the country during the height of the Great Depression.

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) sought to counter high unemployment caused by the Great Depression by hiring young, unmarried citizens for nationwide conservation projects on public lands.

Rather, the men were Weigle’s own employees, members of Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Company 1232. They had been brought in to help develop the swampy, ...

At the time, 453 Delaware men, with 65 from Sussex County, were working in the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), and the overwhelming majority of the enlistees were sending money home to help ...

The Civilian Conservation Corps left a lasting legacy in Washington, ... The CCC — or the C’s as it was sometimes called — was open only to single men.

The federal public work program known as the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) formed in 1933 in response to the soaring unemployment rates of the Great Depression. Native American communities ...

Within one month of taking office in March of 1933, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt created the Civilian Conservation Corps. The CCC was designed to put people to work during the crushing ...

The Civilian Conservation Corps camp at the Forest Service Ranger Station in Woody Creek, 1934. Aspen Historical Society/Courtesy Photo Residents of Aspen, Pitkin County were invited to the weekly ...

But while more than 200,000 Black men served in the CCC, they often are missing from the historical records and retelling of the CCC story. The same is true of about 85,000 Native Americans in CCC ...

What: “Natural Remedy — The Civilian Conservation Corps in Washington & Oregon” When: Now through Jan. 7, 2024 (10 a.m.-5 p.m., Tuesday-Sunday) Where: Washington State History Museum, 1911 ...