{"title":"Chadron State Park: A Monument to the Civilian Conservation Corps and Company 762","authors":"M. Sandstrom","doi":"10.1353/gpq.2021.0006","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In 1921 Nebraska's legislature created its first state park near Chadron, in the northwestern corner of the state. Chadron State Park developed slowly at first, as its funding was limited, and work was often tied to volunteerism. The program that expedited Chadron State Park's development as a regional recreation destination was the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), created by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's administration. For roughly eleven months, from June 1933 to May 1934, Company 762, which employed around two hundred men at any one time, remade the physical landscape around the park. As a result of their efforts, Chadron State Park and its brilliantly managed landscapes have become a living monument and memorial to President Roosevelt, the CCC, and the hundreds of men who labored to make Chadron State Park the attraction that it is today.","PeriodicalId":12757,"journal":{"name":"Great Plains Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2022-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Great Plains Quarterly","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gpq.2021.0006","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:In 1921 Nebraska's legislature created its first state park near Chadron, in the northwestern corner of the state. Chadron State Park developed slowly at first, as its funding was limited, and work was often tied to volunteerism. The program that expedited Chadron State Park's development as a regional recreation destination was the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), created by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's administration. For roughly eleven months, from June 1933 to May 1934, Company 762, which employed around two hundred men at any one time, remade the physical landscape around the park. As a result of their efforts, Chadron State Park and its brilliantly managed landscapes have become a living monument and memorial to President Roosevelt, the CCC, and the hundreds of men who labored to make Chadron State Park the attraction that it is today.
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In 1981, noted historian Frederick C. Luebke edited the first issue of Great Plains Quarterly. In his editorial introduction, he wrote The Center for Great Plains Studies has several purposes in publishing the Great Plains Quarterly. Its general purpose is to use this means to promote appreciation of the history and culture of the people of the Great Plains and to explore their contemporary social, economic, and political problems. The Center seeks further to stimulate research in the Great Plains region by providing a publishing outlet for scholars interested in the past, present, and future of the region."
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