"Layout Plan of Camp Shawnee No. 2," Shawnee State Forest, Scioto County, Ohio (1933).

ID: 358 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Portsmouth Public Library, Henry A. Lorberg Department of Local History, Portsmouth, Ohio. ~ Creator: Andrew Feight ~ Date: 1933

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

The only surviving "layout plan" for a CCC camp in Shawnee State Forest, this "blue print" captures the basic arrangement of typical camp structures.

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…