The Civilian Conservation Corps worked on facility construction projects, did landscape work, improved existing roads, built new trails, and performed general maintenance throughout the park.

Pennsylvania bought this land for its state forests and in the 1930s the Civilian Conservation Corps worked to improve them.

The Civilian Conservation Corps worked on the property in its early years.

This occurred during the Great Depression, and the state set the Civilian Conservation Corps to work transforming the gift of land into a park.

During the 1930s and early 1940s, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) installed water and telephone lines, improved trails, and worked on landscaping at the park.

Beginning in 1933, during the Great Depression, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) worked on constructing Bastrop and Buescher state parks, and working on a scenic route to connect the two parks.

How the Civilian Conservation Corps Worked In FDR's first 100 days, he created the Civilian Conservation Corps.

Twenty years later, MPA turned the theatre over to the state park, which then surrounded it, and over the next ten years the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) worked to install the massive serpentine stones that now form the 4000-seat Sidney B. Cushing Memorial Amphitheatre.