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19 unusual facts about Civilian Conservation Corps


Air Force Times

He sold his interest in the agency in 1933 and began publishing Happy Days, a paper written for members of the Civilian Conservation Corps.

Buckeye, Colorado

The Civilian Conservation Corps established camp No. 809 in 1935, on the Munroe Ranch.

Carkeek Park

The park went through a few themes over years, from outdoor performance venue, to farm for zoo animal feed, to pasturage rental, to park with WPA Civilian Conservation Corps construction (1933-–36, removed in 1938), to U.S. Army camp (just in 1942), to sewage treatment plant (over vigorous opposition by neighborhoods groups).

Charles D. Barger

In the Spring of 1936, Barger moved to a farm four miles southwest of Oak Grove, outside of Kansas City, and began working for the Civilian Conservation Corps in Blue Springs.

Droop, West Virginia

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) constructed the park's trails and buildings in the 1930s, as part of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal legislation.

Helmuth Naumer

In 1933, during the Great Depression, the Civilian Conservation Corps constructed various park buildings in Frijoles Canyon in Bandelier National Monument including a visitor centre as part of the federal Works Progress Administration's employment program.

Huntley Project

The Anita Dam and Reservoir project, about six miles southeast of Ballantine, was completed in 1937 by Civilian Conservation Corps workers.

Joseph Hilliard Cain, Sr.

During the 1930s, Cain worked with the Mississippi State Forest Service (now Mississippi Forestry Commission) and was Project Superintendent at the Civilian Conservation Corps Camp F-16 in the Ramsey Springs Community.

Kudzu in the United States

Kudzu was intentionally introduced to North America by the Soil Erosion Service and Civilian Conservation Corp in 1876 for the purpose of controlling soil erosion in Pennsylvania.

Leo Gordon

He left school in the eighth grade, went to work in construction and demolition, and then joined the New Deal agency, the Civilian Conservation Corps, in which he participated in various public works projects.

Mark Twain National Forest

In March 1933, he also created the Emergency Conservation Work Act, better known as the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC).

Meramec Conservation Area

Historic sites at the area include the fist state nursery, a Civilian Conservation Corps camp, Lone Hill fire lookout tower, and old mines.

National Park Service Southwest Regional Office

Designed by NPS architect Cecil J. Doty, it is a traditional adobe building, one-story except for a double-height entrance area, with exposed timber vigas and adobe bricks constructed on site by the CCC.

Strawberry, Utah

In the 1930s the CCC came in and replaced the original bridges with heavier cable support bridges.

Switchback School

Also on the property are a contributing privy (c. 1950); a cistern constructed as part of a Civilian Conservation Corps site improvement project (late-1930s); and three stone walls built by the workers from the Works Progress Administration (late-1930s).

The Caverns Historic District

Buildings built between 1940 and 1942 were constructed with labor provided by the Civilian Conservation Corps.

Thomasville Regional Airport

Eleven Civilian Conservation Corps buildings were moved from Halo, Florida and erected as the initial barracks and mess hall.

Union County, South Carolina

Government programs like the CCC, PWA, and WPA put many Union County residents back to work, and government money helped improve the county's water and sewage plants and public roads.

Wabaunsee County, Kansas

The state became an eager participant in such major New Deal relief programs as the Civil Works Administration, the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, the Civilian Conservation Corps, the Works Progress Administration, which put tens of thousands of Kansans to work as unskilled labor.


Camp William James

Camp William James was opened in 1940 by Dartmouth College professor, Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, as a center for training youth for leadership in the Civilian Conservation Corps, which had been inaugurated in 1933 by Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Centennial Work Center

A brass plaque in front of the bunkhouse memorializes Robert Fechner, who was National Director of the Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC) from 1933 until his death in 1939.

Milton Odem House

In 1937, Odem decided to build a new theater to accommodate the influx of movie goers from the Civilian Conservation Corps camp at Camp Sherman and workers at the new Redmond Air Field.

New Almaden

Some structures were built later by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and there is a memorial honoring the Civilian Conservation Corps firefighters who were stationed there for a time.

Oregon Caves Chateau

Extensive rock work was constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps under the direction of the Plans and Design branch of the Park Service, headed by Thomas Chalmers Vint, creating a bond between the building and the landscape.

Portal Ranger Station

The Portal Ranger Station, also known as Portal Work Station, in Coronado National Forest near Portal, Arizona was built in 1934 by the Civilian Conservation Corps.

Sunflower Ranger Station

The Sunflower Ranger Station, also known as Sunflower Administrative Site and as Sycamore Ranger Station, in Coronado National Forest near Punkin Center, Arizona was built in 1935 by the Civilian Conservation Corps.