NP 2 MD - Potomac, Maryland
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flyingmoose
N 38° 58.281 W 077° 11.945
18S E 309491 N 4315897
CCC Camp that was located at the southern end of Bear Island.
Waymark Code: WM14K4Z
Location: Maryland, United States
Date Posted: 07/18/2021
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The CCC camp NP-2-MD no longer exist, but the fruits of their labor do. Where you stand is where all the offices and barracks were when the camp did exist. The main focus of the CCC camp was to repair the C&O canal for recreational use. There are a few signs on site that focus on the benefits of the CCC, though only the one at the coordinates explains the mission and has photos of the work and camp.
Sign Text:
Working Hard to Survive
CCC Creates Jobs for America's Unemployed
Have you ever had difficulty finding a job? During the Great Depression of the 1930's, 15 million Americans - a quarter of the nation's workforce - were unemployed. Many people lived in poverty. African-American unemployment rates were two to three times higher than that of others. In 1933 President Frankin D. Roosevelt established the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) to create jobs and help preserve the nation's public lands.
This was once site of the CCC Camp NP-2-MD where hundreds of young African-American men lived while restoring the first 22 miles of the abandoned Chesapeake & Ohio Canal for recreational use. The work of repairing the towpaths, locks, and lockhouses was difficult, requiring the use of picks, shovels, and axes.
In all, the CCC provided jobs to 3 million young, unemployed men. Of that number, 300,000, or 10 percent, were African-Americans. Thousands of men in need waited with the hope of getting a CCC work assignment.
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