TEXAS
The information below are past events for your state.
1. “See the CCC Legacy
website, then click on the Activities Around the State section and then
click on Texas.”
2. State Parks—Producing a map of New Deal sites and items around the state and accompanying exhibit—funded by State Humanities...
3. Texas State
Parks—There are thirty Texas state parks that bear the distinct mark of
the young CCC laborers who erected permanent structures that reflect the
rustic style which can be seen in National and State parks across the
nation. The state park in Balstrop, Texas is one of only six state parks in
the US built by the CC that are designated as a Nation Historic Landmark On
March 28-29 there was a celebration honoring those CCC alumni that were
found. Between 1933 and 1942 there were 101 companies of young men at 130
CCC camps in Texas and they developed 56 parks in Texas.
4. Snyder—May 11 Save Travis Gym and Scurry Historic County Inc. tour of
Historic Landmarks of Snyder:
A small exhibit in this gym will depict the lifestyles during the Depression
as well as school memorabilia. An active group is o save this gym as a
historic site in the community. Another be happening later at the Snyder
museum.
5. Brownfield---The local Police Station, formerly the local post office,
Is the home of a terrific New Deal mural “Ranchers of the Panhandle
Fighting Prairie Fire with Skinned Steer” by Colorado artist, Frank Mechau.
The community and its visitors are encouraged to drop by the police station
(where you don’t normally go by choice) and take in the beauty of the mural
and the anquish of the fire and the steer. This mural was used as the cover
of Phil Parisi’s outstanding book, The Texas Post Offices Murals. Mary Jo
Hamilton, lifetime citizen of Brownfield, keeps a close watch on this mural
for the community and remembers that her father was in the CCC.
Louise Sears, who also lived in the area, remembers the hard times in that
part of Texas and the country including what the federal government did for
the ranchers including “the cattle that were strong enough to be relocated
were shipped to places where there was water and grass, and for these the
government paid $15 per head for the larger cattle and $8 per head for the
calves. This gave farmers and ranchers some money and they no longer had to
watch their cattle die from lack of water and feed.”
"Homestyles During Depression" Dallas,
Texas 1/4/09 Dallas Morning News
North Texas shaped by from Steve Kline 1/23/09 Star Telegram Depression
"Dealey Plaza Design" Dallas, Texas 2/3/09 Dallas Morning News WPA Project
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