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Bewabic State Park is a public recreation area covering 315 acres (127 ha) on the shore of Fortune Lake (First Lake), four miles (6.4 km) west of Crystal Falls in Iron County, Michigan. The state park's rich Civilian Conservation Corps history is evidenced by the CCC structures still in use. [2]
Poster by Albert M. Bender, produced by the Illinois WPA Art Project Chicago in 1935 for the CCC CCC boys leaving camp in Lassen National Forest for home. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a voluntary government work relief program that ran from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men ages 18–25 and eventually expanded to ages 17–28. [1]
For Civilian Conservation Corps projects in the U.S. state of Michigan. Pages in category "Civilian Conservation Corps in Michigan" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total.
The Civilian Conservation Corps was active in the park in 1933 and 1934, building roads, planting trees and clearing campsites. Most notably, the corps built a square blockhouse with scenic views from the highest point in Muskegon County. A replica stands at the site of the CCC's original blockhouse which burned down in the 1960s.
Originally built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in a rustic style with a fieldstone exterior, it serves as a 135-seat retreat center for nonprofit and public sector groups. It is located on the northern shores of Higgins Lake, northeast of the village of Roscommon between U.S. Highway 127 and Interstate 75.
After the company stopped trolley service to the park, the site was purchased by the Manistee Board of Commerce and deeded to the state to become part of the Michigan state park system in 1921. [ 3 ] The Civilian Conservation Corps was active in the park in the 1930s.
A former Civilian Conservation Corps camp, this property is now known as the Ocqueoc Outdoor Center, and is used for youth and adult outdoor activities. It is significant as one of only two surviving CCC camps in Michigan, out of the 122 different original camp locations. 2: CHOCTAW (shipwreck) CHOCTAW (shipwreck)
Acquisition of the south shore site occurred in 1932; acquisition of the west shore site occurred in 1939, with development beginning there in 1965. [3] Members of the Civilian Conservation Corps and WPA developed the south shore site in the 1930s, building a log bath house [4] and a 40-by-80-foot limestone picnic shelter [5] that is still in use.