Construction of the Churn Creek Lake Dam, Shawnee State Forest, Adams County, Ohio (c. 1935).

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This file appears in: Burning of CCC Camp Adams
Construction of the Churn Creek Lake Dam, Shawnee State Forest, Adams County, Ohio (c. 1935).

Image courtesy of The Ohio State University. Ohio Agricultural Research & Development Center. Wooster OH. Forestry Images Collection.

This file appears in: Burning of CCC Camp Adams

By Andrew Feight, Ph.D.
In June of 1936, Robert Fechner, the Director of the Civilian Conservation Corps addressed a letter to two Ohio senators, Robert J. Bulkley and Vic Donahey, regarding complaints he had received from Nimrod B. Allen, Secretary of the Columbus Urban…