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Hometown:
Troy,
ID
US
(Latah County)
School:
University of Idaho
Undergraduate student
History and Anthropology
Funded by EPSCoR Award:
ICREWS | OIA-2242769
Research Location(s):
University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, CCC in Idaho
COUNTIES: Latah
LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT(S): District 6
Research Statement:
After Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president of the United States in 1933, he set up the New Deal to combat the Great Depression. The New Deal was a series of economic and social plans to stimulate the economy from different angles, as well as provide relief to Americans. One such plan was the Civilian Conservation Corps, or CCC. This plan aimed to provide young men jobs through conservation work. CCC camps were set up across the nation doing labor on Forest Service, National Parks Service, and Bureau of Land Management land. One of these camps was outside of a small town in Northern Idaho, Troy. Here young men worked building roads, fighting fires, and creating reservoirs. The research done for this project served to understand the relationship between the men who worked in this camp and the local community only five miles away. Their relationship, built upon a mutual need for each other, helped to uncover a myriad of social norms from rural towns in the 1930s.
Research Impact:
Even with all of the work that this CCC camp did for the community, their impact isn't often discussed in Troy. One of the biggest projects that the camp worked on was a reservoir that now is source of clean, fresh water for the community. Although it is known as the CCC reservoir, the labor that was put in isn't acknowledged, the thousands of men who worked there are forgotten. With the work done at this camp, is it hoped that more of the community's history will be shared and less forgotten.