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President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal created the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) which hired young men for manual labor in natural conservation. From 1933 to 1942, the CCC planted about three billion trees and developed 56 national, state and local parks in Texas. Enrolled men lived in CCC Camps, and 96 Texas camps employed about 19,200 men at peak hiring. Despite rules against discrimination, the CCC placed the few hired black men in segregated camps, and Indian laborers served at camps on tribal lands. CCC camp 2887 near Milam planted more than six million trees in the Sabine National Forest during its first fall. During World War II, the Milam CCC Camp housed German POWs. |
