MARYLAND
From 1933 to 1942, the Civilian Conservation Corps worked across Maryland. What they left behind is still here. We are picking the work back up.
THE WORK IS STILL STANDING.
Maryland had more than twenty CCC camps. Enrollees built Patapsco Valley State Park, Greenbrier, Cunningham Falls, and Gambrill. CCC crews shaped much of Catoctin Mountain Park (later home to Camp David), planted trees across cut-over central Maryland, and did Chesapeake Bay shoreline conservation work. They built the stone CCC bathhouses at Greenbrier and the bridges still in use across the Patapsco.
CAPABLE HANDS. HONEST WORK.
Maryland 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 MARYLAND BRANCH?
We're building the framework, the technology, the apprenticeship curriculum, and the playbook out in the open. As Maryland-rooted builders raise their hands, branches form. If this resonates and you'd like to help bring a CCC Boys branch to Maryland, write us.
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