"Finished road on Mud Lick road," near CCC Camp Shawnee No. 2, Shawnee State Forest (November 1933)

ID: 357 ~ Source: Image courtesy of The Ohio State University. Ohio Agricultural Research & Development Center. Wooster OH. Forestry Images Collection. Web. http://hdl.handle.net/2374.OX/30337 ~ Creator: Andrew Feight ~ Date: November 1933

This file appears in: CCC Co. 1520 & Camp Shawnee No. 2

Mud Lick Road was built by the men of CCC Co. 1520, one of Shawnee State Forest's four segregated, all-black camps. The CCC built over 100 miles of all-weather roads in Shawnee, as a means of facilitating fire-fighting, forest management, and auto-tourism in southern Ohio.

This file appears in: CCC Co. 1520 & Camp Shawnee No. 2

CCC Co. 1520 & Camp Shawnee No. 2

By Andrew Lee Feight, Ph.D.

CCC Camp Shawnee No. 2 was home to one of the four segregated, all black companies of Civilian Conservation Corps units, which helped to construct the infrastructure of the modern-day Shawnee State…