Pokagon State Park: Toboggan Slide – Angola IN

City:
Angola, IN

Site Type:
Parks and Recreation, Playgrounds

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

Completed:
1935

Quality of Information:
Good

Marked:
No

Site Survival:
No Longer Extant

Description

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) built the first toboggan slide.

The original toboggan slide was built by the CCC ‘boys’ for their own recreational use while they were working on the park between 1934 and 1942.  

It was so popular with the public that it has since been rebuilt, enlarged and remodeled several times, so the current structure is not the original nor contains any part of it.

The toboggan slide is not marked as CCC, but the CCC is commemorated in other parts of Pokagon Park.  A permanent exhibit in the Nature Center lists all the structures they worked on and the Pocket Museum at the park entrance celebrates the work of the CCC at the park.
 

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: 41.71255, -85.02388

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