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Civilian Conservation Corps Exhibit Opens at Andersonville National Historic Site

Men standing in front of presentation board.
CCC enrollees in attendance at the 50th anniversary reunion at Andersonville National Historic Site, 1984.
NPS/Andersonville National Historic Site

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Date: October 3, 2011
Contact: Bridget Beers, 229 924-0343, ext. 113

Andersonville National Historic Site is pleased to announce the opening of its latest temporary exhibit, Andersonville's New Deal: The Civilian Conservations Corps. The exhibit introduces visitors to one of the most popular work programs of the 1930s, the Civilian Conservation Corps or CCC. Company 1411 of the CCC established a tent camp at Andersonville in September 1934 and opened a more permanent camp the following month. The exhibit utilizes photographs, artifacts and text to show the impact of the CCC on Andersonville. The exhibit will be on display until spring of 2012.

Army Camp Number 3, Company 1411, worked in the Civil War prison site at Andersonville for one year. Among their accomplishments were road surfacing, landscaping, erosion control and projects at Providence Spring. Company 4455 took over the camp buildings in 1936 after the departure of Company 1411. The new arrivals were responsible for beautification and landscaping projects in Andersonville National Cemetery.

Andersonville National Historic Site is located 10 miles south of Oglethorpe, GA and 10 miles northeast of Americus, GA on Georgia Highway 49. The site features the National Prisoner of War Museum, Andersonville National Cemetery and the site of the historic Civil War prison, Camp Sumter. ­Andersonville National Historic Site is a unit of the National Park System and serves as a memorial to all American prisoners of war. Park grounds are open from 8:00 am until 5:00 pm with the museum opening at 8:30 am. Admission is free. For more information on the park, call 229 924-0343, visit on the web at www.nps.gov/ande/, or find us on Facebook at facebook.com/AndersonvilleNPS

 

Resources:
News Release [44KB PDF file]
Photograph [1.15MB JPG file] CCC enrollees in attendance at the 50th anniversary reunion at Andersonville National Historic Site, 1984. Pictured, left to right, are members of Company 1411: King Mullis, Halliday Pearce, William Hill, Gordon Brown, Norris Singleton, Richard Holman, Luther Justice, Paul Williams, John Joiner, Dan Patterson, David Leaptrot, Gleason Fowler, Joe Topshe, James Raybon, Wilmer Eubanks. Photo credit: NPS/Andersonville National Historic Site

Did You Know?

Drawing of a barbershop inside the Andersonville prison

Inside the Andersonville prison was a vibrant free market economy. Prisoner George Fechtner recounted that, “there were a number of barber shops there where men could get shaved, their hair cut and whiskers dyed, and some of them carried on the doctoring business. They would buy their dyeing articles to work with, their soap and other things, from new arrivals.” Other prisoners operated stores, sold firewood, and repaired clothes and shoes.