NEW·MEXICO
From 1933 to 1942, the Civilian Conservation Corps worked across New Mexico. What they left behind is still here. We are picking the work back up.
THE WORK IS STILL STANDING.
New Mexico had a major CCC program. Enrollees built much of the infrastructure at Bandelier National Monument (the visitor center, trails, and bridges), Hyde Memorial State Park, and the early facilities at White Sands National Monument. CCC crews cut fire trails across the Santa Fe and Carson National Forests, fought the 1937 Frijoles Canyon fire, and did extensive soil erosion control across the eroded valleys of northern New Mexico. The work at Bandelier is some of the best-preserved CCC architecture in the Southwest.
CAPABLE HANDS. HONEST WORK.
New Mexico 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 NEW MEXICO BRANCH?
We're building the framework, the technology, the apprenticeship curriculum, and the playbook out in the open. As New Mexico-rooted builders raise their hands, branches form. If this resonates and you'd like to help bring a CCC Boys branch to New Mexico, write us.
WRITE THE CORPS join@cccboys.com