VIRGINIA
From 1933 to 1942, the Civilian Conservation Corps worked across Virginia. What they left behind is still here. We are picking the work back up.
THE WORK IS STILL STANDING.
Virginia was the heart of one of the largest CCC projects in the country: Shenandoah National Park and Skyline Drive. Enrollees built much of Skyline Drive itself (the 105-mile ridge road), the trail system through the park, the overlooks, and the ranger stations. CCC crews also built Pocahontas State Park, First Landing, Westmoreland, and Hungry Mother. They planted millions of trees across the cut-over Blue Ridge, fought forest fires across the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests, and shaped the trails along the Appalachian Trail's Virginia segment. The stone CCC architecture across Shenandoah is some of the best-preserved anywhere in the system.
CAPABLE HANDS. HONEST WORK.
Virginia 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 VIRGINIA BRANCH?
We're building the framework, the technology, the apprenticeship curriculum, and the playbook out in the open. As Virginia-rooted builders raise their hands, branches form. If this resonates and you'd like to help bring a CCC Boys branch to Virginia, write us.
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