Trap Pond State Park - Laurel DE

City:: Laurel, DE
Site Type:: Parks and Recreation
New Deal Agencies:: Work Relief Programs, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Description

“Trap Pond State Park is a 2,109 acre (8.5 km²) Delaware state park located near Laurel, Delaware. It is one of the largest surviving fragments of what was once an extensive wetland in what is now southwestern Sussex County. The state park features an extensive patch of second-growth baldcypress trees…

In the 1930s, the federal Civilian Conservation Corps listed the pond as a place of recreation development. The Delaware legislature took over the land and named it as a state park in 1951.”