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Primary and Secondary sources for studying the CCC Projects in the Texas State Parks, both from the time they were built and the state they are in now.
Photo from the Cedar Lake Spillway at Cleburne State Park, taken after its completion. The summary included briefly describes the motivation behind the project, the materials and men required to complete it, and the techniques used to construct it.
Texas Parks and Wildlife. “Cedar Lake Spillway, Cleburne State Park, 1936-1940.” The Look of Nature: Designing Texas State Parks During the Great Depression. Accessed September 28, 2022. http://www.texascccparks.com/archive/cleburne-dam-construction/
List of Enumerated CCC Camps in Texas, their date of completion, and location in reference to the nearest post office.
Civilian Conservation Corps Legacy. “CCC Camps Texas.” Accessed September 28, 2022. https://ccclegacy.org/CCC_Camps_Texas.html
Where did those rustic rock buildings in many Texas State Parks come from — the ones that look so natural, they might simply have grown out of the ground? They might be visitor centers, group shelters or cabins. Chances are that those structures were built by young men in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the 1930s and early 1940s.
Ramos, Mary G. “Civilian Conservation Corps in Texas.” Texas Almanac, 2008-2009.
An overview of the history of Balmorhea and related materials from the time.
Price, Peggy. “Balmorhea State Park Pool.” Texas State Library and Archives Commission, Archives and Information Services: Out of the Stacks, July 21, 2021.
Interview Transcript of one of the CCC workers. Russell Cashion, discussing his life before joining and his outlook.
Texas Parks and Wildlife. “Russell Cashion Oral History.” The Look of Nature: Designing Texas State Parks During the Great Depression. Accessed September 28, 2022. http://www.texascccparks.com/archive/oral-history-russell-cashion-I/
In this book, Cynthia Brandimarte has mined the organization’s archives, as well as those of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission and the Texas Department of Transportation, to compile a rich visual record of how this New Deal program left an indelible stamp on many of the parks we still enjoy today.
Brandimarte, Cynthia A. Texas State Parks and the CCC: the Legacy of the Civilian Conservation Corps. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2013.
Texas Parks and Wildlife. “Tent Camp, Palo Duro Canyon State Park, c. 1936.” The Look of Nature: Designing Texas State Parks During the Great Depression. Accessed September 28, 2022. http://www.texascccparks.com/archive/palo-duro-tents-men-formation-12/
