CCC Celebrating 75 Years
Hanley Library will be celebrating the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Civilian Conservation Corps (the CCC) with a reception on July 9th from 3 – 5pm in the lobby of the Library on the Bradford campus of the University of Pittsburgh. Light refreshments will be served and talks by Dr. Michael Schultz and Richard Kandare from the Allegheny National Forest will be presented. Following the reception a car caravan will be lead to a nearby CCC camp for those interested.
Operating from 1933 to 1942 the Civilian Conservation Corps was part of President’s Roosevelt’s New Deal program. It enrolled unemployed young men into a peacetime army and sent them into battle against destruction and erosion of our natural resources. They planted tress, fought fires, helped with flood and hurricane disasters, built dams, fire towers and roads. They developed recreational facilities in national, state, county and metropolitan parks.
In 1935 Pennsylvania had 113 camps with over 194,000 personnel serving the state. Their work can be seen in the Allegheny National Forest where 16 camps operated. Through out the state it is estimated that the Corps planted over 59 million trees, constructed over 3,000 miles of truck trails and minor roads and provided tree and plant disease control on over 400,00 acres of land. It made a huge impact on the economy of the state, it had sociological impacts on the towns and villages where the camps were locate, and it impacted the educational levels of the young men employed in the system.
The reception will feature the CCC memorabilia collected by Dr. Schultz archived in Hanley Library and show a video he produced titled “The Civilian Conservation Corps: a Peaceful Revolution.”
Operating from 1933 to 1942 the Civilian Conservation Corps was part of President’s Roosevelt’s New Deal program. It enrolled unemployed young men into a peacetime army and sent them into battle against destruction and erosion of our natural resources. They planted tress, fought fires, helped with flood and hurricane disasters, built dams, fire towers and roads. They developed recreational facilities in national, state, county and metropolitan parks.
In 1935 Pennsylvania had 113 camps with over 194,000 personnel serving the state. Their work can be seen in the Allegheny National Forest where 16 camps operated. Through out the state it is estimated that the Corps planted over 59 million trees, constructed over 3,000 miles of truck trails and minor roads and provided tree and plant disease control on over 400,00 acres of land. It made a huge impact on the economy of the state, it had sociological impacts on the towns and villages where the camps were locate, and it impacted the educational levels of the young men employed in the system.
The reception will feature the CCC memorabilia collected by Dr. Schultz archived in Hanley Library and show a video he produced titled “The Civilian Conservation Corps: a Peaceful Revolution.”
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