Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Construction Crew

ID: 726 ~ Source: "Ratcliff CCC Camp," rootsweb, accessed March 4, 2015, http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txhousto/photo_locations/ccc.camp.htm.
This file appears in: Davy Crockett National Forest
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Construction Crew

The Ratcliff CCC construction crew ready to build, 1938. 2.5 million young men joined the CCC across the United States, including 156,000 Texans. These men changed the landscape of East Texas.

This file appears in: Davy Crockett National Forest

By Rachael Larkin
Davy Crockett may not have killed a bear at three years old as he claimed, but he still was the “King of the Wild Frontier.” Therefore, it is not surprising that in 1936, President Franklin Roosevelt named a new national forest after the legendary…