Research at Civilian Conservation Corps in Arkansas

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was the result of Senate Bill 8.598, signed into law on March 31, 1933. Between 1933 and 1942, seventy-seven companies were established in Arkansas and located throughout the state. Throughout Arkansas, portions of some CCC camps remain on the landscape as overgrown foundations, standing (or partially standing) structures, water management systems, and various infrastructure modifications. Whereas, others are the empty landscape of a once thriving camp. Many locations represent the labor provided of CCC camp enrollees to construct lasting landscape modifications and buildings in the form of trails, roads, culverts, dams, cabins, amphitheaters, and others. Today, these former camps and affiliated camp constructions are recorded as archaeological sites.

Research on the Civilian Conservation Corps Camps in Arkansas began with a focus on archaeological and historical research at Camp Halsey (3FA313), and has evolved to into a broader statewide project to document, evaluate, and summarize CCC camps throughout Arkansas. Results from the statewide project are available in: The Civilian Conservation Corps in Arkansas: From Active Camps to Archaeological Landscapes, Arkansas Archeological Survey Research Series No. 71 (2026).

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