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A Civilian Conservation Corps enrollee in dress uniform sounds a bugle, the CCC insignia on his cap — National Archives photo

Research August 7, 2026

Okefenokee Trailblazers: Archiving the Legacy of Company 1433

SELC tells the story of the Company 1433 Project — archivist Jes Neal and project manager Jennie Berglund’s effort to preserve the legacy of the all-Black CCC company whose canoe trails and infrastructure opened the Okefenokee Swamp to generations of visitors. The landscape Company 1433 helped shape has now been inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

via Southern Environmental Law Center

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CCC laborers at work around a Civil War monument at Gettysburg, with the battlefield landscape beyond — historical photo

Research April 22, 2026

Rethinking the CCC, Black Labor, and the History of Our Parks

Writing for the Trust for Public Land, managing editor Amy McCullough re-examines a story often left out of CCC history: the roughly 250,000 Black corps members whose labor shaped our national and state parks, their fight for recognition and equity in a segregated Corps, and why their legacy matters for public lands today.

via Trust for Public Land

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Forested ridges of the George Washington National Forest in Shenandoah County, Virginia

Historic Designation January 15, 2025

Shenandoah County Designates Rt. 675 the CCC Memorial Byway

In a unanimous vote, Shenandoah County's Board of Supervisors officially designated Route 675 as the Shenandoah County CCC Memorial Byway, honoring the legacy of Camp Wolf Gap and Company 333.

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