Saving the "Signature Stone" of the original Mackletree Road Bridge (2016)
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Workers saved the original "signature stone," which was inscribed "Built by Co. 1545, AD 1934." This stone was then prominently incorporated into the new CCC Stone Memorial which is located at Roosevelt Lake in the Shawnee State Park.
This file appears in: Roosevelt Lake and the CCC Stone Memorial: Memorializing the Men Who Built Shawnee State Park and Forest
Roosevelt Lake and the CCC Stone Memorial: Memorializing the Men Who Built Shawnee State Park and Forest
In 1934, a segregated, all-black Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) unit of enrollees, known as Company 1545, dammed the waters of Mackletree Run and Turkey Creek, creating Roosevelt Lake, the…