“In practically every case, Delaware boys are enjoying the camp life and have so expressed themselves to their commanding officers,” the Milford Chronicle reported on Sept. 15, 1933. At the time, 453 ...

During the Great Depression of the 1930s, President Roosevelt’s CCC put 3 million young men to work across America. Living in camps across all 48 states (and the territories of Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto ...

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, ...

FORT DRUM, N.Y. (May 2, 2025) -- As long as there have been Soldiers assigned to Fort Drum, civilian employees have been working alongside them, providing the support needed to strengthen military ...

Few federal government programs today are viewed as efficient and popular, with long-lasting effects. The Civilian Conservation Corps, the enormously successful Depression-era program of Franklin D.

Young fisherman Johnny Fitzmorris, 11, casts his line into Lake Pontchartrain at Fontainebleau State Park Friday. Fontainebleau State Park near Mandeville is turning 75, and they are honoring the ...

The Department of Agriculture creates a separate division of forestry to address management policies of the nation’s forests. President Benjamin Harrison, Courtesy: Bureau of Printing and Engraving ...

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) began on March 31, 1933 under President Roosevelt’s “New Deal” to relieve the poverty ...

The Great Depression struck Long Island like lightning, hitting communities and robbing many boys and men of work and dignity. But President Franklin Roosevelt, a conservationist like his cousin Teddy ...

At the Robert Cooper Audubon Society’s May 20 meeting, Liz Marthaler will give a presentation on the Civilian Conservation Corps and the impact this program had on national, state, and local ...

On a Thursday morning in late May of 1934, Washington State Parks Superintendent William G. Weigle drove from his Seattle office to Millersylvania State Park in Thurston County, about 14 miles south ...

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 ...