Updated: 01 Nov 2004
The winter of 1932-1933 was a hard time for many people in Oklahoma, every effort was made by state and local agencies to furnish employment and relieve distress. Help was given by the Federal Government with the coming of President Franklin D. Roosevelt to office on March 4, 1933, this activity of the national government was vastly increased. This was continued year after year with Oklahoma, on the whole, supporting enthusiastically the National Recovery Administration (NRA) and other policies of the President.
The Federal Government under the National Recovery Administration (NRA) [1933] and other policies of President Roosevelt supplied huge sums of money to assist in building highways, lakes, dams and public buildings. Numerous Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) encampments were established throughout the state giving employment to thousands of young men in outdoor work. Numerous Works Progress Administration (WPA.) projects gave employment to large numbers of people as did the Public Works Administration (PWA) projects by which the Federal Government furnishes nearly half the money for needed public buildings or other work of a public nature. As this vast program of national spending got under way, unemployment was greatly reduced, distress was relieved and a more hopeful feeling was apparent among the people of the state.
Over three million young men and adults were put to work during the Great Depression of the 1930s and 1940s in the United States.
In the Eighth Corps Area there will be 120 camps for 24,000 men. Twenty have
been allotted to Arizona, twenty-five to Colorado, fifteen to New Mexico,
sixteen to Oklahoma, thirty-four to Texas, and ten to Wyoming.
Source: http://newdeal.feri.org/forests/af733.htm and
sources listed below.
Camp listings
All personnel files are still held by the federal government. The enrollee or the enrollee's next of kin may request discharge papers. Discharge papers are the best source to find the company and camps the enrollee was assigned to (see address below).
http://www.cccalumni.org/states/oklahoma1.html
information contained in these listings was taken from Day Reports showing company location and date. Town names appear as they were spelled in the Day Reports.Other information, including camp and company reports, reside in the National Archives. To date these items are not indexed, but are available for study at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.
Request discharge papers at
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
National Personnel Records Center
Civilian Personnel Records
111 Winnebago Street
St. Louis, MO 63118FINDING ABOUT AN INDIVIDUAL'S CCC SERVICE
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Getting Started, Getting Times and Place of Service
Next Step, What Did The Camp Do?
Part One - Camp Inspection Reports
Part Two - Miscellaneous Federal Government Records
Part Three - State and Local Records
Part Four - State and National Parks
Part Five - CCC Alumni Groups and Museums
Part Five - CCC Officers, Staff and Technical Personnel
Part Six - CCC Day Records or Logs
Justin Civilian Conservation Museum
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