Mt. Pleasant C.C.C. Camp

The CCC was part of Roosevelt's New Deal "first 100 days effort" to pull the United States out of the ongoing Great Depression that followed the stock market crash of 1929. An estimated 16 million Americans were unemployed, including 5 million to 7 million young men in the 16-25 age group.Utah was particularly hard-hit by the depression, with its annual per capita income of $300 - only 80 percent of the national average. Almost 36 percent of the state's work force was idle.
Deseret News August 8, 1985