"CCC Boy" Statue

The Civilian Conservation Corps in Florida put fifty thousand young men to work restoring land and building public resources from April 7, 1933 to June 30, 1942. They replanted ninety thousand acres on private land and in Florida State Forests, also replanted and developed thousands of acres in three Florida National Forests, built eight flagship state parks including O'Leno, and completed hundreds of other conservation, environmental, and public recreation projects. The program, designed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, joined youth and land in an effort to save both and succeeded. George Lecouris, who joined the CCC in 1934 and served in Company 1439 at Camp F-9 in Vilas, Florida, was among the veterans later associated with Chapter 143, organized on October 1, 1988, by CCC veterans in the area.

Florida · United States