TEXAS
From 1933 to 1942, the Civilian Conservation Corps worked across Texas. What they left behind is still here. We are picking the work back up.
THE WORK IS STILL STANDING.
Texas had one of the largest CCC programs in the country with more than fifty camps. Enrollees built Big Bend National Park infrastructure (including the Chisos Basin road), Bastrop State Park, Garner, Palmetto, Mother Neff, Davis Mountains, and Caddo Lake. CCC crews planted millions of trees in shelterbelts across the Texas Panhandle during the Dust Bowl, fought the worst of the 1936 fires, and built stone CCC architecture you still see at Bastrop, Palo Duro Canyon, and Davis Mountains today.
CAPABLE HANDS. HONEST WORK.
Texas 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 TEXAS BRANCH?
We're building the framework, the technology, the apprenticeship curriculum, and the playbook out in the open. As Texas-rooted builders raise their hands, branches form. If this resonates and you'd like to help bring a CCC Boys branch to Texas, write us.
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