The Civilian Conservation Corps was launched on April 5, 1933, to relieve unemployment by establishing camps where young men worked on forest and park conservation projects and on soil erosion on farms. Managed by Army personnel, the men were paid $30 per month, with $25 sent home, and they also received housing, food, medical and dental care, and education benefits. The young men who served in this area and in 76 other CCC camps throughout Tennessee became part of the CCC legacy in Tennessee. Company 4493, Camp TVA-P-1, was originally Company 284, a Second Corps company that worked under the Forest Service as Camp TVA-8. In October 1934, the National Park Service took over the camp as Camp TVA-P-1 and began work on Norris Park. In August 1935, after local Second Corps area companies moved west, the New York and New Jersey men were replaced by men from Tennessee. Beginning July 1, 1937, the camp designation became SP-9 and work started on developing a new park fronting Norris Lake at Caryville, Tennessee, to be known as Fork Mountain Park, later renamed Cove Lake State Park.