Charles Arthur Hopkins, the Roosevelt Game Preserve Manager, feeds a white-tail deer at "the Zoo."

ID: 746 ~ 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…