Civilian Conservation Corps company 3541 began here in July 1935 on a former ball park site owned by John L. Vest. Known as Camp Bean Ridge to the 200 men stationed here, it was 1 of 44 CCC camps in Kentucky. More than 89,000 Kentuckians found work and acquired job skills through the CCC, which began in 1933 during the Great Depression and ended in 1942 with American involvement in World War II. This camp’s mission was to conserve soil and fight erosion. The men trained local farmers in contour farming, crop rotation, and strip cropping, surveyed and made management plans for farms in four Northern Kentucky counties, planted trees, built fences, provided relief aid during the 1937 Ohio River flood, and served as emergency shelter.