Skyline Drive
The Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia
6:57 AM Daylight Savings Time
The CCC, Civilian Conservation Corps, was a relief program started by Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the Depression. It consisted of healthy men with families aged 18 to 23 who focused on soil conservation and reforestation within the Park. The men were given food, shelter, and clothing, plus $30 a month, twenty-five of which was sent directly to their families.
The 105 mile long Skyline Drive was built by the Army Corp of Engineers, but the low fieldstone walls were the accomplishment of the CCC. The Civilian Conservation Corps constructed numerous overlooks measuring 2.5 miles in total, picnic areas, campgrounds, graded slopes, planted trees and grass, and cleared acres of chestnut trees that had suffered from blight in the 1920s.
The walls were refurbished in 2024.
The info came from various sources.
Skyline Drive
The Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia
6:57 AM Daylight Savings Time
The CCC, Civilian Conservation Corps, was a relief program started by Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the Depression. It consisted of healthy men with families aged 18 to 23 who focused on soil conservation and reforestation within the Park. The men were given food, shelter, and clothing, plus $30 a month, twenty-five of which was sent directly to their families.
The 105 mile long Skyline Drive was built by the Army Corp of Engineers, but the low fieldstone walls were the accomplishment of the CCC. The Civilian Conservation Corps constructed numerous overlooks measuring 2.5 miles in total, picnic areas, campgrounds, graded slopes, planted trees and grass, and cleared acres of chestnut trees that had suffered from blight in the 1920s.
The walls were refurbished in 2024.
The info came from various sources.