Mackletree Road Bridge Design Plans, Detail (1934).
This file appears in: Roosevelt Lake and the CCC Stone Memorial: Memorializing the Men Who Built Shawnee State Park and Forest

Ernest L. Gill from the State Architect's Office in the Ohio Department of Public Works designed the bridge with locally sourced hand-cut sandstone piers and parapets. The bridge’s deck and railings were constructed from recently blighted American Chestnut trees that were taken from the lake site, creating a structure inspired by the National Park Service’s influential “parkitecture” style.”
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…