- City:
- Fort Worth, TX
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation, Forestry and Agriculture, Paths and Trails, Shelters, Picnic and Other Facilities, Park Roads and Bridges, CCC Camps
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
- Started:
- 1934
- Completed:
- 1938
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) is primarily responsible for building the Fort Worth Nature Center and Refuge (FWNC&R) which is located just inside the city limits of Fort Worth, TX.
CCC Company 1816, Lake Worth Camp SP-31-T served in this area from 1934-1938. It’s projects planned and supervised by the National Park Service included roads, bridges, bridle paths, nature trails, picnic areas and stone shelter houses.
Source notes
Fort Worth Nature Center and Refuge (https://www.fwnaturecenter.org), accessed October 2019.
Waymarking, (https://www.waymarking.com/gallery/image.aspx?f=1&guid=518b13fe-2f1c-4ff9-81c3-4ec13a5cc3dc&gid=3), accessed October 2019.
https://www.fwnaturecenter.org/event/nature-center-history-tour/
Site originally submitted by Eveline Evans on August 31, 2018.
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Susan Kline
The CCC improvements listed under the Lake Worth Improvements include the ones at the Fort Worth Nature Center (Lone/Cactus Point, Broadview, Rest Awhile but not Mosque Point which is outside the boundaries of the Nature Center). The Nature Center wasn’t officially created until 1964 so to say that the CCC created it is misleading.