Bird's-eye View of CCC Camp Scioto on Pond Run, Shawnee State Forest, Scioto County, Ohio (c. 1935).

ID: 335 ~ Source: Image Courtesy of the Rudy Yuckich CCC Collection, Shawnee Digital History Lab, Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, Ohio. ~ Creator: Andrew Feight, Ph.D. ~ Date: c. 1935

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CCC Camp Scioto on Pond Run was home to Co. 552, which built McBride Lake Dam and Spillway and the Pond Run Fire Tower.

This file appears in: CCC Camp Scioto & McBride Lake

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…