- City:
- Angola, IN
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation, Lakes and Ponds
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
- Completed:
- 1935
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) enrollees at Pokagon State Park created a series of three fish rearing ponds, originally with dams between them, fed by an existing spring. They were completed in 1935 and used to assure Lake James would be well stocked with desirable fish. Many state parks in Indiana had such fish rearing ponds, most of them constructed by New Deal agencies.
With changes in conservation practices, the ponds were left to languish, but remnants are still visible in the winter months.
The former ponds are not marked. Only two sites in the park are marked individually as CCC; but the old gatehouse is now a CCC Pocket Museum with exhibits and the Nature Center has an exhibit that lists all the structures CCC enrollees worked on.
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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.
At this Location:
- Pokagon State Park: CCC Pocket Museum - Angola IN
- Pokagon State Park Development - 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: Beach and Bathhouse - 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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Glory-June Greiff
The site is extant but largely filled in. In winter months the pond depressions are visible.