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Pages in category "Civilian Conservation Corps in Pennsylvania" The following 47 pages are in this category, out of 47 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
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]
Masten is a ghost town in Cascade and McNett Townships in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, United States.It was a lumber mill company town from 1905 to 1930, served as the site of a Civilian Conservation Corps camp from 1933 to 1940, and the last family left it in 1941.
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
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 ]
The Pennsylvania Outdoor Corps is a signature program within DCNR that is supported operationally by L&I. More than 1,200 young ... Pa. budget provides $5M to support critical conservation ...
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) established 113 CCC camps in Pennsylvania (second only to California). Using CCC and Works Progress Administration (WPA) labor, the NPS built five Recreation Demonstration Areas , which became Pennsylvania state parks in 1945 and 1946: Blue Knob , French Creek , Hickory Run , Laurel Hill , and Raccoon Creek .
The lumbermen left behind a barren landscape that was devastated by erosion, flooding and wildfires for twenty years. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania bought the thousands of acres of deforested and burned land. The state began the massive project of reforesting the land. The young men of the Civilian Conservation Corps led the reforestation ...