LOUISIANA
From 1933 to 1942, the Civilian Conservation Corps worked across Louisiana. What they left behind is still here. We are picking the work back up.
THE WORK IS STILL STANDING.
Louisiana had a real CCC presence despite its hot summers. Enrollees built Chicot State Park, Lake Bistineau, Fontainebleau, and Lake Bruin. CCC crews planted pine seedlings across the Kisatchie National Forest to restore the cut-over timber lands of central Louisiana, fought the 1936 Mississippi River floods, and did soil conservation work across the cotton parishes. Much of the original infrastructure at Kisatchie's Longleaf Trail is CCC work.
CAPABLE HANDS. HONEST WORK.
Louisiana 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 LOUISIANA BRANCH?
We're building the framework, the technology, the apprenticeship curriculum, and the playbook out in the open. As Louisiana-rooted builders raise their hands, branches form. If this resonates and you'd like to help bring a CCC Boys branch to Louisiana, write us.
WRITE THE CORPS join@cccboys.com