Bloomingdale CCC boys worked in areas forests

Bulloch Historical Society hears about Depression-era camp in Chatham

Young men of the Civilian Conservation Corps read newspapers and practice typing in the dayroom of CCC Camp Ogeechee in Bloomingdale in 1935. The chimney from that fireplace is all that remains of the camps several large wooden buildings. - photo by Courtesy of Bloomingdale History Museum

W ccccamp2 — Young men of the Civilian Conservation Corps read newspapers and practice typing in the dayroom of CCC Camp Ogeechee in Bloomingdale in 1935. The chimney from that fireplace is all that remains of the camps several large wooden buildings. - photo by Courtesy of Bloomingdale History Museum

From 1933 until 1942 through the Great Depression, more than 3 million unmarried young American men worked mostly outdoors and earned money for themselves and their parents through the Civilian Conservation Corps. Some 78,000 of those men were based at 127 camps in Georgia, about 30-35 of which operated at any one time, according to the New Georgia Encyclopedia. One of those was Camp Ogeechee at Bloomingdale in Chatham County.

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