This article in the Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette shows why the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was such a popular program in the 1930s. In July of 1933, CCC camps were at work in the Erving and Wendell State Forests in Massachusetts. The Reporter describes the Wendell camp’s work in the area around Ruggles Pond which was being transformed into a state park. The park and the stone dam the workers built are still in existence today. The article emphasizes the military organization of the camps, which were administered by the War Department. As a result of hard work and discipline, young men “from manufacturing towns in the eastern part of the state, feeble with undeveloped muscles and sunken chests, have become husky and bronzed.”
Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette. “More Weight On Men, More Roads Through Forest Show Result of One Camp.” July 10, 1933. Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, American Centuries. https://americancenturies.org/collection/l08-045/. Accessed on November 10, 2024.
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