Corps of Granite: Glimpses of New Hampshire's CCC Camp by Robert W. Averill & Kris Pastoriza (Robert W. Averill, 2024)
Almost a century ago, thousands of young men began arriving in New Hampshire to live for months or years in cabins they built themselves while doing strenuous work in the wild, including cutting state Route 118 through the woods, helping create Bear Brook State Park, and repairing the Old Man of the Mountain.
Even though we still reap the benefits today, most of us have no idea they were here.
Filling that hole in our memories is the main goal of a new self-published book, “Corps of Granite,” about the dozens of Civilian Conservation Corps camps that operated in New Hampshire from 1933 to the early 1940s. The CCC was a program to help unemployed men between ages 18 and 29 (no women were allowed) during the Great Depression, one of several sweeping federal programs in President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal to overcome the nation’s economic stagnation.
The men — more than a million overall in some 1,400 camps throughout the country —fought forest fires, planted trees, created roads, built wildlife refuges and fish hatcheries, as well as bridges and campground facilities. Many of the nation’s federal and state parks were virtually created by them. --Publisher's blurb
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