Pokagon State Park: CCC Camp SP 7 (demolished) - Angola IN

City:: Angola, IN
Site Type:: CCC Camps, Federal Facilities
New Deal Agencies:: Work Relief Programs, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Started:: 1933
Completed:: 1942
Quality of Information:: Very Good
Marked:: Yes
Site Survival:: No Longer Extant

Description

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) established a camp at Pokagon State Park in order to work on developing the park. The camp was there from 1933 to 1942, when the CCC program closed down. The camp was dismantled afterward.

Camp SP-7 housed Company 556 and consisted of officers quarters, six barracks, headquarters building, recreational hall, bath house/laundry, mess hall, latrine, motor pool shed, blacksmith/tool storage, educational/shop building, pumphouse and water tower, and ham radio shed.

The site is marked by a sign on a stone pedestal, built by one of the former CCC boys some 40 years after the camp closed. More recently, the entire camp site was surveyed and trails created throughout, marking the locations of all the buildings with signage describing what took place in the buildings and photographs. A trail from the present Nature Center nearby leads to the site.

The former camp is only one of two sites marked individually as CCC, but the old gatehouse is now a CCC Pocket Museum with exhibits about the CCC and a permanent exhibit in the Nature Center lists all the structures the CCC enrollees worked on.

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.

Location Info

450 Lane 100 Lake James
Angola, IN 46703
Steuben County

Coordinates: 41.703081, -85.02993

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2 comments on “Pokagon State Park: CCC Camp SP 7 (demolished) – Angola IN”

Ray Woodcock September 18, 2018

Would you happen to know the exact location of the CCC camp at Pokagon?

Thanks!

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Glory-June Greiff August 21, 2022

Yes. Today it is well marked with trails and signage throughout the site. A short trail starting at the Nature Center will take you right to it.

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