Excerpt: The CCC was formed in 1933 during the Great Depression by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to combat unemployment. According to the National Association of Civilian Conservation Corps Alumni, Roosevelt "proposed to recruit thousands of unemployed young men, enroll them in a peacetime army, and send them to into battle against destruction and erosion of our natural resources. Before it was over, over three million young men engaged in a massive salvage operation, the most popular experiment of the New Deal."
CCC camps popped up throughout the nation, and in Pennsylvania, 16 camps were built throughout the four counties of the Allegheny National Forest and left a legacy that is still visible and used today.
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