Camp Conner - Stafford Springs, CT - Civilian Conservation Corps on Waymarking.com

Shenipsit is also home to Connecticut’s museum of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). The CCC was President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s solution to the need for environmental conservation work and the large number of unemployed young men during the Great Depression until 1941, our entry into World War II. The "CCC Boys", mostly ages 17 to 24, lived in military style camps and were paid $1 a day to work in what are now the state and national forest and park systems.

In 1935 CCC Camp Conner was established at the present site of the Shenipsit Forest Headquarters and CCC Museum. The Museum is located in the only remaining CCC barracks building in the State and pays homage to the dedicated men who worked in Connecticut camps. The museum features a large collection of tools, equipment, photographs, and memorabilia from the former "Camp Conner" and 21 other camps in the State.

In Connecticut camps the "CCC Boys" were responsible for the creation and maintenance of many of our state parks and forests including: Hammonasset Beach, Chatfield Hollow, Squantz Pond, and Southford Falls state parks, and Pachaug, Cockaponset, and many more state forests. They constructed buildings, forest roads, and recreation areas, planted trees, and fought forest fires in every state in the United States.

Operating hours for the museum are weekend afternoons 12:00 to 4:00 Memorial Day to Labor Day and by appointment.

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