- City:
- Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park, Hillsboro, WV
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Parks and Recreation, Museums, Campgrounds and Cabins
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Civilian Conservation Corps completed groundwork and remade the battlefield area into an outdoors recreation area. The museum is located in a former cabin and not built as a museum. In the 1970s it was broken into and many of the original items stolen—including some artifacts that were present at the battle. Photographed is the exterior of the house and a modern interior shot featuring now retired Park Superintendent Mike Smith.
“At Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park, the Civil War museum is housed in a former rental cabin built ca. 1935 by the CCC.”
Source notes
National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Documentation Form:
https://www.wvculture.org/shpo/nr/pdf/cover/6451099.pdf
(page 45)
Site Visit, 9 March 2016
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on June 5, 2015.
Additional contributions by Ernest Everett Blevins, October 23, 2017.
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