FDR quickly implemented the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) as part of his New Deal program and Chinsegut became a CCC Camp in 1937. While employing a couple hundred young men on the property in way millions of others would work on other CCC camps across the country, the CCC camp at Chinsegut also had some singular qualities.

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