Family of Charles Arthur and Mable Hopkins, seated upon one of the Roosevelt Game Preserve concrete dams in Harbor Fork of Turkey Creek

ID: 744 ~ 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"

Family of Charles Arthur and Mable Hopkins, seated upon one of the Roosevelt Game Preserve concrete dams in Harbor Fork of Turkey Creek

This file appears in: Roosevelt Game Preserve Headquarters and "the Zoo"

Roosevelt Game Preserve Headquarters and "the Zoo"

By Andrew 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 Harbor Fork of Turkey Creek in…