During the depths of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt created a plan to provide jobs for unemployed young men by restoring natural resources, and on March 31, 1933, the bill establishing the Civilian Conservation Corps was passed. New York State Parks used the program to develop facilities by creating four CCC camps at Letchworth State Park, where between 1933 and 1941, 3000 men lived and worked at the Gibsonville, Great Bend, St. Helena, and Lower Falls camps. At the Gibsonville Camp, young men constructed shelters, fireplaces, rail fences, cabins, comfort stations, and the main park road from Mt. Morris to the Wolf Creek area, seeded and planted shoulders and rights of way, conducted trail and woods cleanup, operated one of two quarries in the park, and removed dead trees and brush.