PENNSYLVANIA
From 1933 to 1942, the Civilian Conservation Corps worked across Pennsylvania. What they left behind is still here. We are picking the work back up.
THE WORK IS STILL STANDING.
Pennsylvania had one of the largest CCC programs in the country. Enrollees built infrastructure at Allegheny National Forest, Cook Forest State Park (saving the last virgin pines), Worlds End State Park, Promised Land, and Hyner View. CCC crews planted millions of trees across the cut-over and strip-mined northern Pennsylvania, built fire towers across the Susquehannock and Tioga State Forests, and did extensive flood control work after the devastating 1936 floods. The iron CCC bridges across Pennsylvania state forests are still carrying traffic.
CAPABLE HANDS. HONEST WORK.
Pennsylvania 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 PENNSYLVANIA BRANCH?
We're building the framework, the technology, the apprenticeship curriculum, and the playbook out in the open. As Pennsylvania-rooted builders raise their hands, branches form. If this resonates and you'd like to help bring a CCC Boys branch to Pennsylvania, write us.
WRITE THE CORPS join@cccboys.com