Civilian conservation core info. Camp surveyor

barn E · Mar 13, 2009

Would appreciate any info on this camp and CCC in general in South Carolina. My dad was in this outfit, but I don't find anything about it. Thanks a million. Dave

HENRY E NC · Mar 13, 2009

Civilian Conservation Corps. Remember it well. During the great depression you could sign up for a specified period of time. They did mostly work iin the National Parks, state parks. I remember visiting a CCC camp as a youth with mt father who had a friend there. Had camps all over the country. Google CCC or the long title. Wikipedia has some on this subject. Just for info, we also had WPA . Thsy did infrastructure construction and could be hired by the wealthy to do projects on their property like damming up streams, making lakes and such.

J.C.in AZ. · Mar 13, 2009

My Dad and his 1/2 brother were young fellows with access to a family owned farm in ky.which had one attribute, it had a tobbaco base.this is in 1935. They decided that Dad would join the CCC for 6 months and send home his pay to Brother to get a Crop started. It worked,sort of. Dad was sent to Utah some where [Delta Utah ] to help build roads in what became a Federal Park. He told lots of stories of life in a CCC Camp.He came home in 1936 ,got married and I was born in 1937.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 14, 2009

The website www.ccclegacy.org might be able to help you. They have info on alot of camps from around the country. You may also be able to get some info from the national archives in Washington DC. Your state library may also have some info. Cal

keh · Mar 14, 2009

Lots of people here in SC worked in CCC camps. It was a poor state then, still is. An uncle who died young before I was born worked in CCC. A neighbor claimed you could use up 30 minutes in the morning greasing your wheelbarrow wheel. The camps were temporary and I don't know any locations, but there are probably sites with locations listed as the other post said. CCC did a lot of good work with soil erosion projects.

I don't know if CCC did it but here on the home place terraces which the folks called government terraces were installed.

KEH

rustyj14 · Mar 14, 2009

I was a kid when the WPA was formed. I can remember my folks calling it the "We Poke Along" outfit, because the workers spent more time leaning on their shovels, than working! Seemed to take forever to get anything done, they said.
My mother's Brother wanted to escape farm life, to join either the WPA, or the CCC, but his father put the "kibosh" on that idea, as he was better needed on the farm, not building roads for the population to ride on, in their fancy cars!

Richard G. · Mar 14, 2009

Where in SC was he? We had a lot of CCC work in the upstate. My son who is the curator of Oconee Heritage Center, has much info on the camps. Let me know if I can help.
Richard

JMS/.MN · Mar 14, 2009

My HS buddy says his Dad always referred to the WPA as We Poor Aholes.

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