- City:
- Mayfield, Willoughby Hills, OH
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation, Education and Health, Infrastructure and Utilities, Museums, Paths and Trails, Shelters, Picnic and Other Facilities, Water Supply, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels, Sanitation and Water Disposal
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), National Youth Administration (NYA), Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)
Description
Multiple New Deal agencies worked to develop the North Chagrin Reservation outside Cleveland, Ohio.
“Over the course of the 1930s the reservation was modernized with graded roads, permanent trails, sewage and water infrastructure, and shelter houses, much of this construction undertaken by federal and state public works programs. Between 1933 and 1937, workers from the Civilian Conservation Corps camp at neighboring Euclid Creek Reservation laid out miles of hiking and bridle trails in North Chagrin. Similar projects funded through the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, National Youth Administration, and WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION included an enlarged trailside museum, picnic and parking areas, the rerouting of drainage systems along park boundaries, and an improved YMCA camp.”
Source notes
https://ech.case.edu/cgi/article.pl?id=NCRSite originally submitted by Evan Kalish on July 30, 2016.
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