“The CCC was a win-win for FDR. Both put hundreds of thousands, eventually millions of people to work.
And he also did something for posterity, for future generations, for what we would now call the Environment”
- Jonathan Alter (qtd in The 1930’s).
And he also did something for posterity, for future generations, for what we would now call the Environment”
- Jonathan Alter (qtd in The 1930’s).
In entirety, the three million men that participated built over 800 parks, and planted 3 billion trees in a matter of less than ten years (History). 144 of these camps are located in Pennsylvania.
Conestoga Pines Park - Created by the Civilian Conservation Corps - Lancaster, Pennsylvania
The dedication and work that the CCC performed has carried through the decades, and, across the nation, people of today enjoy the parks, reservoirs, and roads that the members created.
The saplings that were once planted eighty years ago are now giant and towering, standing as a representation of the program that changed so many lives during the 1930’s.
The saplings that were once planted eighty years ago are now giant and towering, standing as a representation of the program that changed so many lives during the 1930’s.
As Harley Jolley states, “It was a healing, heal the man, heal the land” (The 1930’s).
Although President Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in the depths of The Great Depression, he turned what seemed to be a catastrophic crisis into a blossom of hope for the nation, with an everlasting legacy:
The Civilian Conservation Corps.