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The CCC’s Integrated Crews Build Alabama’s First State Park
Cheaha Mountain became Alabama’s first state park thanks to an unlikely team.
From 1933 to 1942, three Civilian Conservation Corps companies – white youth, Black youth, and WWI vets – worked side by side during the Depression.
Poor Alabama boys sent most of their $30 monthly pay home while they hand-dug a six-acre lake and carved towers from rock harder than steel…