ARIZONA
From 1933 to 1942, the Civilian Conservation Corps worked across Arizona. What they left behind is still here. We are picking the work back up.
THE WORK IS STILL STANDING.
Arizona had more than thirty CCC camps spread from the Grand Canyon to the Mexican border. CCC enrollees built much of the North Rim infrastructure at Grand Canyon National Park, the Saguaro National Monument trail system, and the visitor facilities at Boyce Thompson Arboretum. Crews put up fire towers in the Coconino and the Tonto National Forests, dug stock tanks across the rangelands, and built the early roads into what's now Petrified Forest National Park. The CCC also built much of the Mount Lemmon Highway above Tucson.
CAPABLE HANDS. HONEST WORK.
Arizona 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 ARIZONA BRANCH?
We're building the framework, the technology, the apprenticeship curriculum, and the playbook out in the open. As Arizona-rooted builders raise their hands, branches form. If this resonates and you'd like to help bring a CCC Boys branch to Arizona, write us.
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