Civilian Conservation Corps

CCC camps in Michigan; the tents were soon changed to barracks by Army employers for the workers.

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was started by Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression. The CCC gave young men jobs such as fighting forest fires, digging ditches, and planting trees. The CCC paid these men about thirty dollars a month. At first, it was planned to get men out of the cities, but more men came from small towns and rural areas.

Civilian Conservation Corps Media

CCC boys leaving camp in Lassen National Forest for home
A CCC-built bridge across Rock Creek in Little Rock, Arkansas
CCC workers constructing a road in what is now Cuyahoga Valley National Park, 1933
154th Co.. CCC, Eagle Lake Camp NP-1-Me. Bar harbor Maine, February 1940
A CCC map of the planned route of a parkway in Texas, drafted in 1934. The Corps worked in numerous parks throughout the state during the early 1930s, constructing everything from benches to highways.
Inside of CCC barracks at Milford, Utah. Two of the men are sitting on footlockers that were used by the CCC workers to hold their personal possessions.
CCC Camp recreational hall or educational building (unidentified location)
A CCC pillowcase on display at the CCC Museum in Michigan

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