View of Turkey Creek from beneath the old stone Mackletree Road Bridge (2012)
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Constructed in 1934 by Co. 1545 of the Civilian Conservation Corps, the original bridge was made of hand cut sandstone, quarried from Turkey Creek and the site of Roosevelt Lake.
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…