CCC Stone Memorial at Roosevelt Lake, Under Construction (Fall 2016)

ID: 350 ~ Source: Image courtesy of Andrew Feight, Ph.D., from the Scioto Historical Series, private collection, Friendship, Ohio. ~ Creator: Andrew Feight, Ph.D.

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CCC Stone Memorial at Roosevelt Lake, Under Construction (Fall 2016)

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.

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Mackletree Road Bridge & the CCC Stone Memorial

By Andrew Feight, Ph.D.

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…