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Poster by Albert M. Bender, produced by the Illinois WPA Art Project Chicago in 1935 for the CCC CCC boys leaving camp in Lassen National Forest for home. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a voluntary government work relief program that ran from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men ages 18–25 and eventually expanded to ages 17–28. [1]
The Damascus CCC Camp, Co. No. 3781 was a Civilian Conservation Corps encampment on Camp Hill Road in Damascus, Arkansas. Today, only three elements of the camp infrastructure survive: a large two-span stone arch that originally marked the camp entrance, a smaller arch that was used as a notice board, and a well. All were built in 1935 or 1936.
The McMillan Woods CCC camp was Civilian Conservation Corps camp NP-2 [1] on the Gettysburg Battlefield planned in September 1933 near CCC Camp Renaissance in Pitzer Woods (camp NP-1).
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) established [G 9] camp NP-1 in Pitzer Woods [G 10] (45 tents by July 3), [G 11] and the facility was named "Camp Renaissance" by October. [54] 1934-02-03 CCC camp NP-2 had opened in McMillan Woods [55] (Charles Heilman was the 1936 commander). 1934-03-02
Sep. 18—America's 20th-century "tree army" brought generations of citizens closer to nature's wonders while enduring the nation's greatest economic plight. If the political winds are favorable ...
Camp Tulelake was a federal work facility and War Relocation Authority isolation center located in Siskiyou County, five miles (8 km) west of Tulelake, California.It was established by the United States government in 1935 during the Great Depression for vocational training and work relief for young men, in a program known as the Civilian Conservation Corps. [1]
The Rabideau CCC Camp was a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp in the Chippewa National Forest in northern Minnesota, United States.It is located off Beltrami County Highway 39, in Taylor Township, and is one of the best-preserved of the nation's many CCC camps.
Civilian Conservation Corps poster (1935) President Franklin Roosevelt valued the CCC because it was fueled both by his passion for rural life and the philosophy of William James. [3] [4] James deemed this sort of program the "moral equivalent of war," channeling the passion for combat into productive service. [5]