View of CCC Camp Roosevelt, home of Co. 1545, on Turkey Creek, Shawnee State Forest, Scioto County, Ohio (c.1934).
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CCC Camp Roosevellt was the home of Co. 1545, a special all-black, all-World War I veterans unit, which built the Shawnee State Park's Roosevelt Lake Dam and Spillway Bridge (c. 1934).
Photo credit: Floyd Chapman, "The Development and Utilization of the Wildlife Resources of Unglaciated Ohio," Ohio State University, Ph.D. Dissertation, 1938.
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CCC Co. 1545 & Camp Roosevelt
On May 20th, 1935, T. J. McVey walked the grounds of CCC Camp Roosevelt on the banks of Turkey Creek in Ohio's Shawnee State Forest. McVey worked for the Inspections Division of the CCC and his "Camp…