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Read through 200 pages of history, of the village of
Harrisville New York. Gaze at 122 old time pictures of the same. You can
also read a little of the history of the Shean’s and the Stowell’s of
this North Country. And finally get tangled up with my story as a young
boy, while I was growing up through the years of 1919 to 1938 in this
small Village. As you read along it will pull at your heart strings just
wishing, you were there with me.
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The Civilian Conservation Corp was created by Franklin
D. Roosevelt as a solution to the tremendous unemployment problem
created by the stock market crash of October 1929 which resulted in the
"Great Depression." Just days after he was inaugurated on March 4, 1933,
Roosevelt met with congress and proposed programs to reduce
unemployment, stabilize banks, and provide aid to agriculture. Senate
Bill 598 (the Emergency Work Act) was introduced March 27th, passed both
houses in 4 DAYS with President Roosevelt signing it into law on March
31, 1933. The people implementing the bill soon became known as the
Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC). The first camp to open was Camp
Roosevelt near Edinburg, VA. On April 17, 1933, |