Pennant

This Civilian Conservation Corps [CCC] pennant dates from 1933, the year of the CCC’s founding. From 1933 to 1942, the CCC functioned as a public relief program for unemployed men. It provided jobs for young men and resulted in countless construction and conservation projects throughout the nation.

Death Valley had been established as a national monument in February, 1933 and by October of that year two companies of the Civilian Conservation Corps (400 men) entered Death Valley to start putting the infant monument in shape for the American public. In the next nine years, 12 companies worked in Death Valley. They built barracks, graded 500 miles of roads, installed water and telephone lines, erected a total of 76 buildings for themselves, and Works Progress Administration and National Park Service employees. They built trails in the Panamint Mountains to points of scenic interest. They erected an adobe village, laundry and trading post for Shoshone Indians. The CCC built 5 campgrounds, restrooms and picnic facilities, developed wells and springs, constructed an airplane landing field, made signs and helped with surveying the monument.