ARKANSAS
From 1933 to 1942, the Civilian Conservation Corps worked across Arkansas. What they left behind is still here. We are picking the work back up.
THE WORK IS STILL STANDING.
Arkansas had one of the busiest CCC programs in the country. Enrollees built Petit Jean State Park (the state's first), Mount Nebo, Devil's Den, Lake Catherine, and Pinnacle Mountain. They cut fire trails through the Ozark and Ouachita National Forests, dug spillways at Lake Wilhelmina, and built the stone bathhouses that still stand at Mount Nebo. The CCC also did major flood control and soil conservation work across the Arkansas Delta, where cotton erosion had ruined thousands of acres of farmland.
CAPABLE HANDS. HONEST WORK.
Arkansas 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 ARKANSAS BRANCH?
We're building the framework, the technology, the apprenticeship curriculum, and the playbook out in the open. As Arkansas-rooted builders raise their hands, branches form. If this resonates and you'd like to help bring a CCC Boys branch to Arkansas, write us.
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