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was no food on the table , and children and adults alike were aimlessly walking the streets of America in search of a better life that seemed out of reach .
In March 1933 , FDR summoned Congress to Washington , D . C . Congress heard his plan to enlist 250,000 men in an effort to “ preserve the natural resources of these United States .”
During its time , there were many nicknames for the CCC , but the most common by far was “ Roosevelt ’ s Tree Army .” This name stuck because the recruits were young men and boys who enrolled for a term of service , lived in camps , much like the soldiers in an army . Each CCC camp had a commanding officer , a mess hall , laundry and tool house . Modular barracks made it easy to add to camp or tear it down .
Much of the land in north Georgia and throughout the Southeast had been stripped bare and left as worthless . In addition to the reforestation ,
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corps members would build roads and fire control trails , work on erosion control and fight forest fires . Today ’ s Chattahoochee National Forest was partially reforested with the help of the CCC .
Completed in 1942 , Lake Winfield Scott is the lasting legacy of the CCC in north Georgia , named for General Winfield Scott , who led the United States Army for 40 years and ran for President .
Vogel State Park is an example of CCC success . The CCC built the original dams , cabins , walkways and road in the park .
The CCC Camps were run at first with regular Army personnel . Once the program got going enrollees were trained to run the camps . Nationwide , the enrollees planted more than 22 million trees , constructed nearly a half-million erosion-control dams and ran more than 3,600 miles of telephone lines .
Vogel State Park has a small CCC Museum .
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The Franklin D . Roosevelt Memorial in Washington , D . C .
He started early by establishing the CCC which did a great good for millions of
Americans and for the nation .
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Photo of the CCC mess hall |