- City:
- Angola, IN
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation, Bathhouses
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
- Started:
- 1938
- Completed:
- 1939
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- Unknown
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) built the bathhouse and beach at Pokagon State Park in Angola, Indiana, in 1938-39.
CCC ‘boys’ trucked endless loads of gravel from a deposit in another part of the park to create a swimming beach, as well as a fine gravel lake bottom. This was accomplished by spreading a thick layer of gravel over the ice of the frozen lake where the beach was being created and letting it settle as the ice melted.
The gabled frame bathhouse was completed in 1939.
Source notes
DNR Historic Site and Structures Inventory
Glory-June Greiff, People, Parks, and Perceptions: A History and Appreciation of Indiana State Parks. Indianapolis, 2009.
______, New Deal Work Projects in Indiana State Parks, Discrete survey for Indiana DNR, 1990-91.
National Historic Register Nomination Form for Pokagon State Park, https://secure.in.gov/apps/dnr/shaard/r/219ee/N/Pokagon_State_Park_Steuben_CO_Nom.pdf
Site originally submitted by Indiana Division of Historic Preservation/Nicole Cory on July 11, 2014.
Additional contributions by Glory-June Greiff.
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- Pokagon State Park Development - Angola IN
- Pokagon State Park: Fish Rearing Ponds (former) - Angola IN
- Pokagon State Park: Potawatomi Inn Bathhouse - Angola IN
- Pokagon State Park: Overnight Cabins - Angola IN
- Pokagon State Park: Saddle Barn - Angola IN
- Pokagon State Park: CCC Camp SP 7 (demolished) - Angola IN
- Pokagon State Park: Office Building - Angola IN
- Pokagon State Park: Drinking Fountains - Angola IN
- Pokagon State Park: CCC Shelter House - Angola IN
- Pokagon State Park: Group Camp - Angola IN
- Pokagon State Park: Spring Shelter - Angola IN
- Pokagon State Park: Toboggan Slide - Angola IN
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David M Clark
I was a lifeguard there with Bill Hall, Joyce Rockwell, Kim Charleston, Tim and Shelly McIntire, and many others for 3 Summers in 1967, 1968, 1969. Best years of my life before I was drafted into Army in 1970.