Project type: Campgrounds and Cabins, Parks and Recreation
Started: 1934
Completed: 1936
Quality of Information: Moderate
Site Survival: Extant
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Description
“Five thousand people were present for the dedication of the park on July 25, 1935. It was named after an able Delta planter and lawyer who was a U.S. senator from Mississippi in 1909-13. Park facilities were built by the Civilian Conservation Corps Companies 2422 and 5467 between 1934 and 1936. Only two of the seven original log cabins are left. The solid log architecture is typical of the buildings that the CCC built in parks across the nation during the Depression.” (McGinnis, 163)
Source notes
McGinnis, Helen. n.d. Hiking Mississippi. Univ. Press of Mississippi.
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