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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]
1933-06-10 CCC camps. 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
In June 1933, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) began construction of the Skokie Lagoons in northern Cook County, Illinois. The project involved the digging of seven lagoons and interlocking channels, moving 4 million cubic years of earth, on the Skokie Marsh.
Native Americans worked in the CCC and other New Deal programs, including the newly formed Soil Conservation Service. [50] In 1933, the administration launched the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), a project involving dam construction planning on an unprecedented scale in order to curb flooding, generate electricity, and modernize the very poor ...
Between 1933 and 1935, it functioned as a base camp for Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) workers who were employed on multiple construction and forestry projects in the area during the Great Depression. The camp was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004; three buildings and the remains of a fireplace are included in the listing
Captain Francis J. Moran moved from Camp Renaissance to become the new camp NP-2 commander in October 1933 [2] (supervisors under Superintendent Farrell included Charles Heilman in 1936, and Major Renn Lawrence was the 1937 CCC sub-district commander.)
The Civilian Conservation Corps allowed unemployed men to work for six months on conservation projects such as planting trees, preventing soil erosion, and combating forest fires. Workers lived in militarized camps across the country and made $30 per month. By the end of the program in 1942, the CCC had employed 2.5 million men. [10]
Camp TERA began on June 10, 1933, with 17 young women from New York. Currently Bear Mountain State Park in New York, the site had 12 camps for CCC enrollees in 1934. FDR visited camp sp-20 [12] that year to review the corps. He spent time at the recreation center, mess hall, barracks and camp library, praising the more than 200 enrollees for ...