CCC in Shawnee State Park and Forest

The 1930s mark one of the most important decades in Shawnee State Forest’s history. With unemployment rates as high as 25% nationally, and even higher in some…

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CCC Cabin Museum and the Shawnee State Park Nature Center

The distinctive A-frame construction of the Nature Center dates to circa 1969, when it was built for a private…
2

CCC Camp Scioto & McBride Lake

In the mid-1930s, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) enrollees from nearby Camp Scioto built McBride Lake in th…
3

Pond Lick Lake and CCC Camp Shawnee No. 1

The first of seven Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camps to call Shawnee Forest home, CCC Camp Shawnee No. 1…
4

Picnic Point and Auto-tourism in Ohio's Little Smokies

In the mid-1930s the Ohio Division of Forestry, with the assistance of the Civilian Conservation Corps, built …
5

CCC Co. 1545 & Camp Roosevelt

On May 20th, 1935, T. J. McVey walked the grounds of CCC Camp Roosevelt on the banks of Turkey Creek in Ohio's…
6

Roosevelt Lake and the CCC Stone Memorial

In 1934, a segregated, all-black Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) unit of enrollees, known as Company 1545, d…
7

Roosevelt Lake Overlook Trail & the Mackletree Shelter House

With the completion of the Roosevelt Lake Dam in 1934, the Civilian Conservation Corps enrollees of Company 15…
8

Wolfden Lake & CCC Camp Gordon

Camp Gordon was one of seven Civilian Conservation Corps camps that were established in the Shawnee State Fore…
9

Burning of CCC Camp Adams

In June of 1936, Robert Fechner, the Director of the Civilian Conservation Corps addressed a letter to two Ohi…
10

CCC Camp Bear Creek

Camp Bear Creek was one of the seven Civilian Conservation Corps camps located in the Shawnee State Forest, be…
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CCC Co. 1520 & Camp Shawnee No. 2

CCC Camp Shawnee No. 2 was home to one of the four segregated, all black companies of Civilian Conservation Co…

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