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 ...

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 ...

and we can thank Frances Perkins for getting the CCC started. It’s been called the greatest federal conservation program in U.S. history — the Civilian Conservation Corps was a workforce initiative ...

When President Roosevelt signed the Civilian Conservation Corps bill in March 1933 as part of his New Deal, he sought to protect the wealth of forests and create ways to control floods and ...