Pokagon State Park: Saddle Barn – Angola IN

City:
Angola, IN

Site Type:
Parks and Recreation, Shops and Auxiliary Buildings

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

Completed:
1938

Quality of Information:
Very Good

Marked:
Unknown

Site Survival:
Extant

Description

The saddle barn at Pokagon State Park was constructed by Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) enrollees in 1938.   It still serves its original function. The structure is classified as Parks Rustic.

New Deal agencies built several attractive saddle barns and extensive horse trails in most of the state parks, bringing this activity into the reach of the average visitor. 

The saddle barn is not marked as CCC, but there is now a CCC Pocket Museum in the old gatehouse and the Nature Center has an exhibit that lists all the structures 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.

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