He also helped direct a review of the CCC’s history in the Ashland area, extensive research performed by Joan Brownell. In her report, Brownell noted: “The dry-laid, hand placed rows of ...

It was converted from farmland and forest in the 1930s and early 1940s by hundreds of young Black men from D.C. who were part of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). The current Arboretum ...

VALPARAISO — Ninety years ago, in 1933, a job training program began in the United States that brought miles of drainage work to Porter County and untold acres of new forests. The Civilian ...