MISSISSIPPI
From 1933 to 1942, the Civilian Conservation Corps worked across Mississippi. What they left behind is still here. We are picking the work back up.
THE WORK IS STILL STANDING.
Mississippi had a strong CCC program focused on soil conservation and forestry. Enrollees built Tishomingo State Park, Clarkco, Wall Doxey, and Roosevelt. CCC crews planted millions of pine seedlings across the cut-over Mississippi timber country, did massive soil erosion control across the Black Belt cotton plantations, and built fire lookouts across the De Soto and Bienville National Forests. The CCC built much of what would become the state park system.
CAPABLE HANDS. HONEST WORK.
Mississippi 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 MISSISSIPPI BRANCH?
We're building the framework, the technology, the apprenticeship curriculum, and the playbook out in the open. As Mississippi-rooted builders raise their hands, branches form. If this resonates and you'd like to help bring a CCC Boys branch to Mississippi, write us.
WRITE THE CORPS join@cccboys.com