Camp Roosevelt Monuments - George Washington National Forest VA - Civilian Conservation Corps on Waymarking.com

Camp Roosevelt was the first CCC camp to begin operation in the United States after Franklin Roosevelt created the program. The camp was in Virginia's George Washington National Forest. The first recruits, most of whom were from Virginia and Washington, D.C., arrived in April 1933. Their projects included road building and maintenance, planting trees, fire prevention and firefighting, in addition to attending school at night. The CCC boys built the Woodstock Tower, the Elizabeth Furnace Recreation Area, the New Market Gap Picnic Area and they even brought white-tailed deer from Pennsylvania and reintroduced them to the Shenandoah Valley.

Two stone monuments stand side by side in what was the center of Camp Roosevelt, now called the Camp Roosevelt Recreation Area.

Inscription on first monument:

CAMP ROOSEVELT
FIRST CIVILIAN CONSERVATION
CAMP IN U. S. A.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
NATIONAL FOREST
APRIL 4, 1933 = JUNE 30, 1983
50 YEARS

Inscription on second monument:

IN MEMORY OF
HENRY RICH
FIRST CCC ENROLLEE IN USA
AND CAMP ROOSEVELT

DIED FEB. 12, 1972

Resource:

• Lee Ranger District - Cultural History - Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) History

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