✅ SOLVED C.C.C. pin - Need an ID

ModernMiner · Oct 23, 2013

I was digging through some trunks of old family photos and assorted goodies, and found this "C.C.C" pin.
I'm assuming it doesn't stand for "chocolate chip cookies". :tongue3:

Any ideas?
Thanks,
MM

pippinwhitepaws · Oct 23, 2013

civilian conservation corps.

ccc uniforms - Bing Images

ModernMiner · Oct 23, 2013

pippinwhitepaws said:
civilian conservation corps.

ccc uniforms - Bing Images

Awesome, awesome, awesome!!! :thumbsup:

Thanks so much for the ID. It must have been my great-grandfather Charlie's pin then. He worked for a WPA work program in N. Indiana along the rivers during the great depression.
Very much appreciated!
-MM-

surf · Oct 23, 2013

TPWD Item: Pin for the CCC Uniform, 1933-1942

Excellent piece of family history, MM.

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) : Penny's Purse

ModernMiner · Oct 23, 2013

surf said:
View attachment 886553 TPWD Item: Pin for the CCC Uniform, 1933-1942

Excellent piece of family history, MM.

View attachment 886556 Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) : Penny's Purse

More great info Surf! :thumbsup:

My great-grandfather was an interesting man and was into everything. When he was working with the work relief program as a timekeeper along the rivers, he would drop bottles with notes in them to see where they would end up. I am physically looking at these notes that were found right now getting ready to write a story about it. One of the bottles he dropped in a river in Ill.in Nov. 1954 made it down to Louisiana and was found in April 1955. Another one was dropped in a river in N. Indiana on Nov. 1936, and was found in Illinois 25 years later in May 1961!!!! Very cool.
-MM-