Residents of Aspen, Pitkin County were invited to the weekly open house for the Civilian Conservation Corps camp at Lenado on Woody Creek each Friday, according to The Aspen Times during the summer of ...
Almost 100 years ago President Roosevelt started The Civilian Conservation Corps. It was meant to get unemployed men jobs, working on projects like building roads, and bridges, and planting trees.
BRIMFIELD — The Civilian Conservation Corps employed 99,500 unskilled Massachusetts men throughout the Great Depression, leaving a legacy of forests, trails, campgrounds, and clean water and green ...
The Civilian Conservation Corps was part of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Enrollees became known as the "tree army" because of how many they planted — more than 2 billion. Today's state and national ...
There aren’t many signs marking their achievements and their numbers are dwindling daily. But the work undertaken by the enrollees of the Civilian Conservation Corps contributed much to California, ...
POINT PLEASANT — On June 23, a reunion of Civilian Conservation Corps alumni, family and friends will meet at 10 a.m. at Camp Sacandaga at 117 Page St. (Route 8) in Point Pleasant, near Speculator.
When President Roosevelt signed the Civilian Conservation Corps bill in March 1933 as part of his New Deal, he sought to protect the wealth of forests and create ways to control floods and decrease ...
Ernest Brewer, left, and John Phillips trade stories during a Civilian Conservation Corps reunion tour of the Ninemile Ranger Station on Friday. Brewer and Phillips are among the nine men who served ...
NEW MARLBOROUGH — Just off Route 183, there’s a circle carved out of the trees in the Sandisfield State Forest where a stone memorial and a flagpole stand for a tragedy long since past. Ten years ago, ...