New Deal, New Landscape: The Civilian Conservation Corps and South Carolina's State Parks

A history of the New Deal program that led to the creation of South Carolina's first sixteen state parks

Tara Mitchell Mielnik fills a significant gap in the history of the New Deal South by examining the lives of the men of South Carolina's Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) who from 1933 to 1942 built sixteen state parks, all of which still exist today. Enhanced with revealing interviews with former state CCC members, Mielnik's illustrated account provides a unique exploration into the Grea...