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distributing statewide the benefits of federal relief and work programs soon to come under the New Deal." In May 1933, scarcely more than a month after President Roosevelt had signed the bill creating Emergency Conservation Work, Hoosiers acquired their first CCC camp in Morgan -Monroe State Forest. under the United States Department of Agriculture. By the end of 1933, nineteen CCC camps were in operation in Indiana. The peak number of camps in Indiana was fifty-six. reached in 1935. In that year there were two thousand CCC enrollees at work in state parks alone. In all. the CCC employed nearly 64,000 Indiana men in the nine years of its existence." In Indiana, as in most of the nation, each of the military - style CCC camps had a designated number. Each camp housed one company (generally about two hundred men), which had a number assigned when it first formed. When work was completed in a particular location, usually the entire company unit would move to another camp, sometimes even to one in another state. Companies and camps were racially segregated.`' -' One of the few published sources available on Indiana during the New Deal is Madison, Indiana Through Tradition and Chanqe. Chapters 3 through 5 specifically deal with the government and politics of the 1930s in Indiana. '' DenUyl, "History of the Civilian Conservation Corps." Indiana Academy of Science, Proceedings 68 (1958), 309; Merrill, Roosevelt's Forest Army, 126-127; "2000 Men Working in 8 State Parks," Recovery in Indiana (January 1935), 11; "Indiana's State Parks Developed by Civilian Conservation Corps," Outdoor Indiana 3 (February 1936), 20-21, 28. • `' Indiana District: Civilian Conservation Corps, 1938-1939, 10, (printed report on CCC camps operating in the state at that time), on file at the Nature Center, Pokagon State Park. See also Salmond, The Civilian Conservation Corps,, 135-144.