An exploration of the remains of a Civilian Conservation Corps camp in mid-Missouri. Very cool remains from the Great Depression era! New content uploaded weekly! Be sure to subscribe so that you don't miss out!
My Grandfather was at a ccc camp, where he learned how to be a brick layer and builder. After getting busted making and running shine during the depression. I believe he was in a North Florida ccc camp
I went to job corps in Hot springs, Arkansas and the center where I went used to be a CCC camp. You can see evidence of that if you look behind the mess hall and in the woods around there. I learned how to do brick masonry there in 93. Haven't been back there since but I wouldn't have changed anything about going when I did go there. Taught me a trade and kept me out of trouble. Good place for a young man to go
My dad was in a CCC in Calloway County, KY. I am so glad you gave information on what the CCC was. He just talked about the fact that his corps built small dams in large creeks to help with erosion issues.
The CCC's brought my Grandfather from Oklahoma to Washington State where he ended up working as a foreman on the Grand Coulee Dam. I can confirm your detail...he was one of those young men who spent his money on stupid stuff until he met my future Grandmother in the area. The CCC's have a happy place in history for our family! Thank you for the video!!!
You got me "LOL" at your spider-web comment at 10:18 -- there's nothing worse than wandering through the woods, not paying attention, and all of sudden you get a face FULL of webs! That's what nightmares are made of! ;-)
Thank you for picking up the trash, it's truly disturbing how little respect people have. I teach my kids to respect the site no matter where it is and to leave it a little cleaner than you find it. Great video.
I live very close to an old CCC camp that was later a German POW camp. I frequent it often and it kind of gives me the creeps at times. It’s camp Michaux. Michaux State Forest. There are many remains of structures.. lots of tile remains.. as well as the signatures of many prominent German prisoners, including ( rumored ) the creator of the Buzz Bomb. The prisoners in this camp were treated very well, and they gave a lot of information voluntarily. It was barely even guarded as the prisoners didn’t really want to leave. They had it very well. And had no reason to want to escape. In fact, as the story goes , the only ones that tried to escape were being sent back to Germany at the end of the war and they didn’t want to go back. Many didn’t have family to go back to, and didn’t want to go back.
Here in Texas many of our state parks have structures build by the CCC which are still in use today. A big thank you to all who made the CCC one of the governments successful project.
Texas, California, and Minnesota some of the few states that still preserve the programs old structures. Longhorn Caverns, Riverwalk, Alamo park, all built by CCC. Amazing legacy!
Very cool to see . My great grandfather was in the CCC camp in northern Pennsylvania . They built many roads up there on the mountain . I got to see some of the roads he built and the parks they have made . Its remarkable how strong and determined these guys were back then .
When I’ve been to any park or beach, I pick up other people’s trash too as I say a few choice words to whom ever it was. Now my adult kids do the same . Why wouldn’t this place be preserved? Thanks for taking us along 🥰
I enjoyed watching this video very much. My dad was part of the CCC when he was 17. He was posted in Oregon and enjoyed every bit of it. I grew up listening to his stories from that time.
I was so excited when I saw this video. My dad grew up in Kilgore, TX. He and his three brothers worked in it in rotation. My mom told me only one boy could be in it at a time. My dad was on the crew that built Tyler State Park, he was a cook there to. Taught my mom how to make gravy.
A great thing you are doing. The real locations of history keeps all the people that served and died In battle alive teaching all later generations aböut what really happens during war. Other programs on these channels are honoring not only military Veterans but people who have lost their lives to Crime and murder including horrible accidents. Every young pérson need to learñ these things before graduation from High School.
Thank you so much for sharing this information. My father was in the CC's in about 1938-1940 timeframe. Hr was 4F and couldn't go in the military, so he opted for the CC's. I know one project he worked on was building a road in Snake River Canyon, later made famous by Evel Knievel jumping the canyon. I live in Union, MO and will have to take a trip to this camp. I had no idea it existed and was this close. The thought that dad may have been there for a bit is intriguing. He was from SE Missouri, so a possibility.
I found your channel a week or two ago, randomly for one of your Easy Company/101st videos. As a retired military guy and a bit of a history buff myself, I watched most of those videos you have. I decided to come back to the beginning and start watching all of your videos. Although I really appreciate the WWII history videos, this video for the CCC was beyond interesting to me. I was only vaguely aware of the CCC and this video really helped me understand a bit more about it. Great job and keep up your efforts.
My grandfather was in the CCC stationed on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. They helped the start of making it into the wonderful place it is. He said the "Indians" had no fear and were on the crew that hung the poles and wires on the side of the canyon. He remembered his time fondly until the moment vascular dementia took his memories from us.
Thank you so sharing their story! I had actually never heard of the CCC before now and after your video, I looked the project up online and found that in Colorado they were extremely active and we have an fully intact camp in the Morrison area. The CCC were also the who constructed Red Rocks Amphitheater which is one the most amazing concert venues I have ever attended. Again...Thank you so much for doing a video about this program! Can't wait to get out there and explore the camp :-)
Found your channel and am starting from the beginning, we have a CCC Camp here in Tucson at the mid way point of Mt Lemmon and they help build the Mt Lemmon Hwy up to the top of the mountain. Enjoying your videos.
Thank you for sharing this experience! On deployments, you always see old projects destroyed by time/war, just foundations, stairs, and fireplaces. It would be amazing if someone went back and re-created these structures. Cool video!
Now the government just hands out money and other benefits, no matter how bad or good our national economic status is. I just subscribed a couple of weeks ago. I will eventually watch all of your videos. Thank you.
One of my tasks in working for the New Jersey Park Service is to try and maintain what is left one of these camps.Department of the Army basically ran them.A lot of young men were prepared for service through these camps like living in barracks. How to work as a unit,discipline,uniforms, the mess hall life,doing physical work, all in a military structure. And do fire guard. Learn understanding .organizational structure and rank.
Very interesting! My parents were young during the depression. They told us stories about different places in Indiana being built by the CONSERVATION CORPS.🐝🥰🐝
I have visited a couple here in Los Angeles County and yours back there is much more preserved. I also agree with your statement on the success of the CCC and I agree of making the employees who enlisted and giving them a higher level of self worth and self esteem as a result of working for a dollar instead of just receiving relief. Thank you and good video...
My great uncle Charlie Fox worked in the CC. He had many stories about it, but they always ended with “if it hadn’t been for the CC, we would have starved”.
My great uncle was one of the Army Reserve officers who was in charge of Camp 1114 North Woodstock New Hampshire from 37-39 then called to active-duty 7th F/A Big Red 1 in 1940
I need to take my son up to Skyline Drive in VA to see some of the CCC things. Many of the people in the hoots and hollers in the Blue Ridge were forced out by the CCC to create the Shenandoah National Park.
The Map must be old. Great they preserved and documented the existence of the Camp. That Pit could have been part of a wash station or rain, run-off, drain - septic system. My thought is that 'Providence' provided an opportunity for the USA to not only provide more than just planting trees - In Boston, Mass. the CCC built overpasses for automobile travel and an extension of a road long before the necessity - but also work and assistance for families. Besides that, it brought together millions of young men, throughout the continent, to meet and work together in unison. This would assist the rapid infusion of men into the military service in 1942. Thank you.
Amazing video! I've explored the abandoned Camp Michaux CCC Camp / World War 2 Prison of War Camp in Pennsylvania near Pine Grove Furnace State Park. There are many cool foundations and bunkers still on that site.
I’m there a lot too. Then up to Hammonds Rock for some views… and past the Safe House before exiting by the old Deer Lodge. Miss that place. Best steaks and onion rings ever.
They did a lot of national and state park work too. Cheaha state park in Alabama has a lot of their work. Some of the cabins they built are still in use. They have a nice museum there about the CCC
CCC kept my Grandfather working and out of the sway of some... less than legal... ways to earn a living. He was 4F when the war broke out due to his eyesight, but CCC gave him the skills to get work at the Boston Naval Shipyard. CCC helped shape the life I have today by giving Grampy a way out of crushing poverty.
The Masker Museum at Promised Land State Park, Greentown PA is well worth a visit. PoconoCamp 139 CCC. I volunteer as a docent in the summer in the museum which has a group photo on the wall and my wife's father appears in the pic. PA DCNR has done a great job in taking care of the state park and campgrounds.
Highlands Hammock State Park in Florida was built by the CCC. They have a dedicated museum there with lots of information and artifacts. I highly recommend going.
ccc camps were mostly barracks , dining halls , showers , latrines , ball fields and other infrastructure . the men would walk or truck to work sites every day .
The CCC built the stone house and trails at Cape Perpetua and the bridge and trails at Multnomah Falls in Oregon. They did a lot of work that no longer exist here also. many young people gained a lot from the program and we benefit today from their projects.
Though some have good memories of the CCC, my grandfather on my mother's side, he didn't regard it as well. While yes, they were worked hard and had jobs and pay, by the same token, he equated it to little better than a prison camp. Not unlike the prison road crews you saw in the Southern US at the time. (If you've seen the movie Cool Hand Luke, then you know the type of camp I'm talking about.) He spent all his time counting down his days until he could finally go home, only to be told that his time had been extended. Eventually, he and a handful of other workers simply left (escaped as he put it) and returned to Ohio.
Ww2 started in 1939 bud, America entered the war in 1941 post Pearl. Just saying for information purposes. Loved the video, I'm from the UK & I've loved seeing some historic America places.
We had a camp here in Northern Arizona that all it was , were wooden slant roof 3 sided rooms with concrete floors, you could hang a tarp over the front and you were camping, but rumor was it was part of this circle of camps.
There was a ccc camp by where I live in NJ I was told that when ww2 started it had became a camp for the u.s army there is a museum in Butler New Jersey where they have some pictures. There is also a German bund camp in Bloomingdale and there are video's on RU-vid on it I had explored it before a quarry took the property and another bund camp in Andover.
My dad was in the CCC I believe in CO but I don't really have any details beyond the fact we all knew he was in the CCC before he and my mom were married in 1938. As I age, I'm finding so many things I wish I would have asked more questions about.
Which conservation site is this camp located? I live in the St. Louis area, my grandpa was in the CCC in southern Missouri. I have been making it a personal quest to check out as much as I can about the CCC. I have camped a lot of Missouri State parks in which you can see the fingerprints of the CCC.
It would have been great if some of these camps would have been preserved as historical sites.. the way they actually were. .. not rebuilt .. but kept in good repair so that history was preserved.
My Dad was in Co. 4448 CCC at Auburn, AL. Among other things, they built Chewcla State Park. There are still stone cabins in use at Chewcla. They serve as accomdations for visitors. My Dad said out of the $30/month, they had to send $22. home and keep $8.
My Father was also in the CCC in Missouri, yes 2/3 home to support family required. My Dad graduated early with one of the Highest Tests. He went on to be a Naval Arial GunneryInstructor and Aircraft Machinist Instructor.
@@FormerMPSGT - What a cool story. That generation was cut from a different cloth. Hope the video gave a small glimpse into what life for your dad would have looked like. Thanks for watching and be sure to check out some of the other videos on this channel. Always looking for new insights and to learn.
My dad was born in 1921 and also was in the CCC. He was too young to join the Army. The old timer over my dad's group insisted that all the guys shave every morning. My dad was so young that he didn't have enough of a beard to need a daily shave, so he took the blade out of the Gillette double edge shaver and only went through the motions of shaving. I am 73 and don't remember many details of his time in the CCC, but before my dad died my wife used a tape recorder to record a whole bunch of my dad's memories.
The overwhelming majority of those guys where bussed to the nearest military post when WWII broke out due to the fact that these camps were run like military boot camps.
I am trying to locate a CCC Camp -Malibu. /I have done serious research, but am.still.unable to locate this camps location. I have a picture my GG grandmother gave me. Amy help would be greatly appreciated.
