The 6-foot-tall bronze statue of a “CCC boy” was sculpted by Sergey Kazaryan and cast at the Elliot Gantz and Co. foundry in Long Island, N.Y. These statues are located around the country in honor of the New Deal works Civilian Conservation Corp.
Statue NO 30: Louisiana’s only CCC Worker Statue has been relocated from its site at the I-49 Welcome Center at Rapides Station in central Louisiana to the Southern Forest Heritage Museum at Long Leaf, LA. Originally sponsored and installed in 2005 by a collaboration between the Louisiana Forestry Association and the Kisatchie National Forest, it had to be relocated due to the closure of the welcome center by the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development. Dedicated March 31, 2005. Funds were raised by Faye McMillin whose brother served in the CCC, in partnership with Buck Vandersteen.
This is a 3D model of a bronze The statue was scanned using an Artec Leo scanner and processed using the Artec Studio 18 program.
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