Nickerson State Park – Brewster MA

City:
Brewster, MA

Site Type:
Parks and Recreation, Infrastructure and Utilities, Paths and Trails, Shelters, Picnic and Other Facilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels

New Deal Agencies:
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Work Relief Programs

Description

From the Friends of Nickerson State Park website: “the Civilian Conservation Corps, (CCC) constructed the first roads, camping sites, parking and picnic areas near Flax Pond. CCC workers also planted 88,000 white pine hemlock and spruce trees.”

Hathitrust.org: “Extensive developments were undertaken by the Civilian Conservation Corps before the park was opened to the public in 1937. Roads were laid out, forest trails cleared and marked, wells dug, shelters erected, tent floors laid, and parking areas cleared.”

Source notes

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uma.ark:/13960/t3612bn3p;view=1up;seq=8

Site originally submitted by Brent McKee and Evan Kalish on July 29, 2016.

Location Info


Roland C. Nickerson State Park
Brewster, MA 02631

Coordinates: 41.765964, -70.031015

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