CCC Stone Memorial at Roosevelt Lake, Under Construction (Fall 2016)
This file appears in: Mackletree Road Bridge & the CCC Stone Memorial
Made with stones salvaged from the original CCC-built Mackletree Road Bridge, the stone memorial at Roosevelt Lake will long commemorate the role that the African-American enrollees of CCC Company 1545 played in the history of southern Ohio and the larger United States.
This file appears in: Mackletree Road Bridge & the CCC Stone Memorial
Mackletree Road Bridge & the CCC Stone Memorial
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, theā¦