After standing for 75 years, the former housing project of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in Nichols has been demolished and removed. Flattened after being condemned because of rotting wood and a severe infestation of bees, the log cabins that once housed one of the elements of President Franklin Roosevelt’s “New Deal,” the cabins housed men who worked to fight soil erosion along the Lumber River.
“As far as historical landmarks go, this was one of the biggest that we had in Nichols,” Kathryn McCormick of Nichols said. “I wish we could have done more to save them.”
According to the Civilian Conservation Corps Web site, the cabins were built in 1933 and were a part of the President’s attempt to bring the nation out of the throes of the Great Depression and to reinvigorate the economy and the youth of the country.
This CCC was a component of Senate Bill 5.598, which established the corps as a means to fight ongoing destruction of the nation’s natural resources and to institute soil conservation. The organization was designed to help stop the wasting of natural resources such as timber, and secondly, the corps was intended to fight soil erosion.
Many of the CCC “Tree Troops,” another nickname for the groups of men who were put
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