MAINE
From 1933 to 1942, the Civilian Conservation Corps worked across Maine. What they left behind is still here. We are picking the work back up.
THE WORK IS STILL STANDING.
Maine had a strong CCC presence in some of the most remote country in the East. Enrollees built much of the infrastructure at Acadia National Park (carriage roads, trail systems, and bridges), worked extensively in Baxter State Park during its early years, and built Bradbury Mountain and Camden Hills State Parks. CCC crews cut trails through the White Mountain National Forest, planted millions of trees across burned-over Maine timber country, and built the fire lookouts that ringed northern Maine for decades.
CAPABLE HANDS. HONEST WORK.
Maine 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 MAINE BRANCH?
We're building the framework, the technology, the apprenticeship curriculum, and the playbook out in the open. As Maine-rooted builders raise their hands, branches form. If this resonates and you'd like to help bring a CCC Boys branch to Maine, write us.
WRITE THE CORPS join@cccboys.com