ALABAMA
From 1933 to 1942, the Civilian Conservation Corps worked across Alabama. What they left behind is still here. We are picking the work back up.
THE WORK IS STILL STANDING.
Alabama was home to dozens of CCC camps from 1933 to 1942. Enrollees built Cheaha State Park atop the state's highest point, Oak Mountain State Park outside Birmingham, and shaped Monte Sano State Park near Huntsville. Soil conservation crews worked across the Black Belt, fighting the cotton-era erosion that had stripped topsoil from farms across central Alabama. CCC hands cleared trails in the Talladega National Forest and built fire roads through the Bankhead. Most of the bones of Alabama's state park system were CCC work.
CAPABLE HANDS. HONEST WORK.
Alabama remembers what was built by people willing to do it.
A COLLECTIVE OF BUILDERS.
The CCC Boys corps is based in Colleton County, South Carolina. Justin and Jeremy Shearer and their cousin Joe Nettles, grandsons of Joseph Connelly, are building it from home. We do hurricane prep along the coast, shingle recycling out of the Columbia metro, marine apprenticeships in Walterboro, and a software portfolio with AI as the partner. The corps is worker-owned: members draw a steady wage first, then operating costs, then runway, then surplus to the people who made it happen. Not shareholders.
South Carolina is the first chapter. Other states are next, as builders in those places raise their hands. The playbook, curriculum, kit specs, and operating model are all open source under Creative Commons. Anyone can use them. Federated branches share the central infrastructure (a stablecoin-native neobank, a shared apprentice curriculum, a brand built by everyone) but operate locally. No fees. No buy-in. You are a branch, not a franchise.
A CCC BOYS ALABAMA BRANCH?
We're building the framework, the technology, the apprenticeship curriculum, and the playbook out in the open. As Alabama-rooted builders raise their hands, branches form. If this resonates and you'd like to help bring a CCC Boys branch to Alabama, write us.
WRITE THE CORPS join@cccboys.com