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Article: FLORIDA'S CCC Parks.
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- Florida Trend
- Article date:
- April 1, 2000
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The muscle of youth and a program born of necessity helped shape Florida's first state parks
In early 1933, America stared into the greatest industrial depression it had ever known. There was a promise, though, of better days to come, Campaigning for president in 1932, Franklin Delano Roosevelt called for a "New Deal," and it would help jump start our broken economy. Within months of his inauguration in March 1933, Roosevelt returned his election promise as he pushed through Congress an unprecedented number of social programs designed to put people to work and to stimulate economic recovery.
Of them, one of the most popular--and successful-was the ...