NORTH·CAROLINA
From 1933 to 1942, the Civilian Conservation Corps worked across North Carolina. What they left behind is still here. We are picking the work back up.
THE WORK IS STILL STANDING.
North Carolina had a major CCC program. Enrollees built much of the infrastructure at Great Smoky Mountains National Park (trails, ranger stations, bridges), the early facilities at Mount Mitchell State Park (the highest peak east of the Mississippi), Pisgah National Forest fire towers, and the Linville Gorge trail system. CCC crews planted millions of trees across the cut-over Blue Ridge, did extensive flood control after the 1916 floods, and built stone CCC architecture you can still find across the Blue Ridge Parkway corridor. The CCC also built much of Hanging Rock State Park and Morrow Mountain.
CAPABLE HANDS. HONEST WORK.
North Carolina 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 NORTH CAROLINA BRANCH?
We're building the framework, the technology, the apprenticeship curriculum, and the playbook out in the open. As North Carolina-rooted builders raise their hands, branches form. If this resonates and you'd like to help bring a CCC Boys branch to North Carolina, write us.
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