Roosevelt Game Preserve Headquarters Lodge (Sky Ranch) in Hobey Hollow, Shawnee State Park, Scioto County, Ohio

ID: 742 ~ Source: Shawnee State Park and Forest Collection, Center for Public History, Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, Ohio.
~ Date: c. 1939

This file appears in: Roosevelt Game Preserve Headquarters and "the Zoo": Ohio's First Nature Center in Hobey Hollow

This file appears in: Roosevelt Game Preserve Headquarters and "the Zoo": Ohio's First Nature Center in Hobey Hollow

Roosevelt Game Preserve Headquarters and "the Zoo": Ohio's First Nature Center in Hobey Hollow

By Andrew Lee Feight, Ph.D.

The headquarters for Roosevelt Game Preserve and "Zoo," established in 1922, ought to be considered Ohio's first state-operated "nature center" in what is now Shawnee State Forest. Located up…