- City:
- Texarkana, AR
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation, Campgrounds and Cabins
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1936
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
Camp Preston Hunt is a Boy Scout Camp originally built on 200 acres of donated land in Texarkana, Arkansas. The Works Progress Administration (WPA) cleared the land and built cabins, a dining hall and a picnic shelter. The WPA employed over 1000 workers who were paid fifty cents a day. A plaque on the grounds identifies the camp as WPA Project 2355.
Source notes
Bouterse, Jane. "A Dream Come True". ALT Magazine, April 2012, pp 61-62. (https://issuu.com/altmagazine/docs/layoutwebapr12)
Site originally submitted by Larry Moore on June 2, 2019.
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