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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 site lies on the Simpson Springs Road portion of the historic Pony Express Trail [2] and is situated Simpson Springs lies at an elevation of about 5,100 feet (1,600 m) [1] on a bajada of the northwest flank of the Simpson Mountains, on the eastern edge of Dugway Valley, [3] and has long been a water source on the trail west from Salt Lake ...
Civilian Conservation Corps by U.S. state (49 C) Pages in category "Civilian Conservation Corps camps" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.
For Civilian Conservation Corps projects in the U.S. state of Louisiana. Pages in category "Civilian Conservation Corps in Louisiana" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
The Camp Ouachita Girl Scout Camp Historic District encompasses a campground area built by crews of the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s on the northern shore of Lake Sylvia, a man-made lake in the eastern part of Ouachita National Forest. The center of the campground, including its Great Hall and administration buildings, is located at ...
The CCC camp closed in January 1937 and Black Moshannon State Park opened that same year. In the 1950s the CCC-built dam was replaced by the current structure. [ 5 ] In 1987, the existing CCC structures in the park were placed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of three separate historic districts . [ 6 ]
1930s Louisiana elections (6 C) S. 1930s in sports in Louisiana (10 C, 1 P) This page was last edited on 24 July 2022, at 21:47 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
The camp was established in 1935 as a project of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal program. The camp, one of 2650 nationwide, was home to about 300 men aged 17–21. Like most CCC camps, the Rabideau camp was established to provide work to those unemployed as a result of the Great Depression.