Museum and Cultural Center at 5ive Points

Cleveland, East Tennessee

Selected by Curator of Collections and Education Madeline Greene

President Franklin D. Roosevelt formed the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in 1933 as one of the New Deal programs intended to pull the country out of the Great Depression. The CCC employed young, single men to work on natural resource conservation. Watch curator Madeline Greene explain how this coin, which was used to purchase goods at the camp in Cleveland, demonstrates the creation of a more perfect union.