National Council on Public History

The institutional history of the South Carolina State Park Service has often left out the stories of women employees. Its telling focused primarily on the all-male Civilian Conservation Corps program of the 1930s, the park system’s origin story. Biographies of directors, superintendents, and rangers, who were almost all men until recently, dominated the agency’s records. But women have been part of that history from the very beginning, and their contributions are a strong thread that runs from the 1920s to the present. This story map seeks to document those contributions.