Reply #2: Here's what CCC did for the "Rural South in Depression," for Wiriters & Artists...

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Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

The objectives of the Civilian Conservation Corps were two-fold; utilization of the country's human resources and conservation of the country's physical resources. These objectives were realized by employing thousands of young men between the ages of 18 and 25 in jobs that were a benefit to conservation, restoration and protection of forests, control of soil erosion and flood control, development of public parks, recreational and historic areas, wild life conservation and other useful public works. The Department of War was responsible for physical examination, enrollment, equipping and conditioning of the men. The Departments of Agriculture and the Interior were responsible for the selection and planning of work projects on national forests, parks, monuments, soil erosion control and the supervision of all projects on state and private lands and state parks. The North Carolina Emergency Relief oversaw local selecting agencies throughout the state to execute the details necessary to placing the men in camps. Of the total 66 camps, 28 were assigned to forest protection and preservation, 22 to soil erosion control, 9 to park projects, 3 to military reservations, 1 to wild life conservation and 3 to Tennessee Valley Authority projects.
List of Images:

* CCC Workers planting trees in western NC, c.1936.
* North tunnel portal from station, 1939.
* Grading and dumping station, 1941.
* Truck and road paving machines on parkway.
* Road crew cutting away the side of a mountain, possibly in preparation of a tunnel.
* Memo about the requirements for the Civilian Conservation Corps.
* Pamphlet announcing completing of the Blue Ridge Parkway.

Next: Writer's Project/Federal Writer's Project

The Federal Writer's Project of North Carolina was started in October 1935 by the WPA to provide work for unemployed writers, journalists, editors, draftsmen and researchers. A major accomplishment of the Federal Writer's Project of North Carolina was the publication of North Carolina: A Guide to the Old North State, part of the American Guide series. To prepare the Guide, an average staff of 100 worked for three years. Libraries were scoured, old newspapers and other periodicals perused, family records examined, and personal visits were paid to almost every section of the state. About one-sixth of the text is devoted to introductory essays concerning the state at large. Thirteen cities and towns were selected for individual treatment because of their historical, educational, commercial, or other importance. The bulk of the guide is given over to motor tours, following the federal highways and the principal state highways. The work includes a North Carolina chronology, a bibliography and an index so that it also serves as a reference work.

* The Highway Traveler, pamphlet collected for the Guide.
* Come to North Carolina, pamphlet collected for the Guide.

Historical Records Survey

One objective of the WPA was to establish a series of nation-wide white-collar projects to provide employment for workers with professional and clerical skills. In November 1935, plans were approved to undertake a national Historical Records Survey as part of the Federal Writer's Project. In North Carolina, the primary objective of the survey was to list all records of the state's one hundred counties and to catalog the principle manuscript collections as well as listing the archives of state government. After a county's workers completed that county's records survey, the remaining resources were used to begin a survey of church records and tombstone inscriptions. Workers surveyed more than 500 North Carolina churches and collected data from nearly 100,000 tombstones.

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