Construction of Roosevelt Lake Dam & Spillway, Shawnee State Park, Scioto County, Ohio (c. 1934)

ID: 57 ~ Source: Image courtesy of Shawnee State Park Nature Center’s Historic Photo Gallery, currently located next to the Nature Center in the Park’s restored CCC Log Cabin. ~ Creator: Andrew Feight, Ph.D.
This file appears in: Roosevelt Lake and the CCC Stone Memorial: Memorializing the Men Who Built Shawnee State Park and Forest

Construction of the Roosevelt Lake Dam and Spillway was part of a CCC-funded state park initiative of the US Department of Interior during the Great Depression. The lake became the centerpiece of what is today known as Shawnee State Park.

This file appears in: Roosevelt Lake and the CCC Stone Memorial: Memorializing the Men Who Built Shawnee State Park and Forest