CCC (Crevasse Concealment Cache) Traditional Geocache
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CCC (Crevasse Concealment Cache)
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A nice hike in Hungry Mother State Park.
This site begged for a cache. Now go find it.
The Civilian Conservation Corps, better know as the CCC, was authorized by an act of Congress on March 31, 1933. One of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “New Deal” was established to relieve unemployment caused by the “Great Depression,” which followed the stock market crash in October of 1929. Designed to give emergency work to young men between the ages of 18 and 25, whose families were on relief, the CCC program at first sent the young men to work in the National Forest, where they did reforestation, flood and fire control, and related projects to beautify the parks and protect the environment.
Hungry Mother State Park would not exist as is, if not for the hard work of these gentlemen who came to southwestern Virginia mostly from the New York/New Jersey areas. Imagine the culture shock of these young men as they came into an area that, at that time, was fairly well isolated from the “cultured” northeast, not to mention the impact on the locals. Surprisingly, both the town and the immigrants made every effort to join forces to make the most of the situation. The locals did their best to entertain the homesick boys via dinners, dances, and shows at the Lincoln Theater (recently restored (visit link) as well as arranging to have movies and newsreels shown at the camp. The CCC boys also provided entertainment to the locals by putting on talent shows and submitting a section the Marion Democrat called “The Goldbrick Alley – News of the CCC Camps”. They were housed in camps, one below the current dam and the second three quarters of a mile east at the former D Campground, now a boat landing and nature area – this is the area where the CCC trail originates from.
These young men from the city were ill experienced for the work they were expected to do at the future Hungary Mother Park. The future lake had to be logged off and cleared and fire trails had to be cut around and through the park (the beginnings of the still used trails). Furthermore, a dam had to be built as well as cabins, barracks, and other buildings. All of the work that was done to complete the park was manual labor including the manual “tram” used to carry the packing clay to build the dam.
These young men were far away from home, in an environment that could be called at best, alien, yet they “made the best” of the situation, as Americans are known to do, and left a beautiful legacy to their determination. Please CITO the area wherever you can to keep this beautiful for our kids and their kids.
This was prepared using the Hungry Mother History & Legends by Mack Sturgill (1986).
Additional Hints
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Lbh arrq gb zbir bar ebpx...
[Here is a spoiler on the quickest route to take up to Molly's Knob if you want to find all 3 of my caches on the way...]
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Urer'f n znc bs gur genvyf:
uggc://jjj.qpe.ivetvavn.tbi/fgngr_cnexf/qbphzragf/uhatelzb.