Person/Organization: Billings, R. E.
Item 26855
CCC camp superintendents, Jefferson, 1935
Contributed by: Maine Forest Service Date: 1935 Location: Jefferson Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Putting Men to Work, Saving Trees
While many Mainers were averse to accepting federal relief money during the Great Depression of the 1930s, young men eagerly joined the Civilian Conservation Corps, one of President Franklin Roosevelt's most popular programs. The Maine Forest Service supervised the work of many of the camps.
