What do you know about the Civilian Conservation Corps (C.C.C.)?
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The Civilian Conservation Corps (C.C.C.) was a New Deal program meant to combat the effects of the Great Depression by providing work, wages, and room and board to unemployed men between the ages of 17 and 28 on a wide variety of government projects. Approximately 14,000 Ohioans were employed each year that the program existed.
You will find some more general information about the CCC in Ohio on Ohio Memory.
Records of the Civilian Conservation Corps are held by the National Archives and Records Administration.
The Ohio History Connection has some Civilian Conservation Corps print materials, camp newspapers and county files available to researchers in our Archives & Library.
The Civilian Conservation Corps Legacy has a research guide for requesting CCC enrollment records and a list of CCC camps in Ohio.