Spillway of McBride Lake Dam, built in 1935 by CCC Co. 552, which made its home at Camp Scioto on Pond Run in the Shawnee State Forest.

ID: 101 ~ Source: Image courtesy of Andrew Feight, Ph.D., from the Scioto Historical Series, private collection, Friendship, Ohio. ~ Creator: Andrew Feight, Ph.D.

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The spillway below McBride Lake is one the more beautiful works of hand-cut stone built by the CCC in the Shawnee State Forest. The enrollees of Co. 552 built the dam and spillway in 1935.

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CCC Camp Scioto & McBride Lake

By Andrew Lee Feight, Ph.D.

In the mid-1930s, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) enrollees from nearby Camp Scioto built McBride Lake in the headwaters of Pond Run, a small tributary of the Ohio River. One of six lakes…