Some 80,000 Kentuckians served in the Civilian Conservation Corps, and three camps in the Cumberland Falls area, Companies 509, 563, and 1578, helped develop Cumberland Falls State Park by blazing foot trails, drawing maps, erecting cabins, and building DuPont Lodge, whose original log structure had 26 rooms, a kitchen, and a dining room; the lodge and cabins were dedicated and given to Kentucky in 1934. Part of Roosevelt's New Deal, the Civilian Conservation Corps began in 1933 and employed men throughout the U.S. building roads and dams and planting trees for flood control. Jobless boys ages 18-25 received three meals a day and usually $30.00 a month, most of which went to dependents, and by 1941 2 million youths had participated.