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S. B. Elliott State Park
Simon B. Elliott State Park is a List of Pennsylvania state parks, Pennsylvania state park located in Pine Township, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, Pine Township, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania in the United States. The park is surrounded by Moshannon State Forest. The park is entirely wooded with Secondary forest, second growth forests of mixed oak species, including northern red oak, chestnut oak, shagbark hickory, red maple, and tulip poplar, and northern hard woods, including sugar maple, black cherry, aspen, birch, hemlock, and ash. S. B. Elliott State park is north of Clearfield, Pennsylvania, Clearfield on Pennsylvania Route 153 just off exit 111 of Interstate 80 in Pennsylvania, Interstate 80. History By the mid-19th century, the demand for lumber reached Clearfield County, where eastern white pine, white pine and eastern hemlock, hemlock covered the mountainsides. Lumbermen came and harvested the trees. The Central Pennsylvania Lumber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Civilian Conservation Corps
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a voluntary government work relief program that ran from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men ages 18–25 and eventually expanded to ages 17–28. The CCC was a major part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal that supplied manual labor jobs related to the conservation and development of natural resources in rural lands owned by federal, state, and local governments. The CCC was designed to supply jobs for young men and to relieve families who had difficulty finding jobs during the Great Depression in the United States Robert Fechner was the first director of this agency, succeeded by James McEntee following Fechner's death. The largest enrollment at any one time was 300,000. Through the course of its nine years in operation, three million young men took part in the CCC, which provided them with shelter, clothing, and food, together with a wage of $30 (equivalent to $1000 in 2021) per month ($25 of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
