uabache State Park Dam & Lake – Bluffton IN

City:
Bluffton, IN

Site Type:
Parks and Recreation, Infrastructure and Utilities, Lakes and Ponds, Dams

New Deal Agencies:
Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA), Civil Works Administration (CWA)

Completed:
1939

Description

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) or Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), possibly both, completed the dam and Lake Kunkal in 1939. The 25 acre lake is impounded by an earthen dam. There are also concrete steps on dam’s south face.

Source notes

DNR Historic Site and Structures Inventory

Site originally submitted by Indiana DNR, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology on September 28, 2015.

Location Info


4930 E. State Road 201
Bluffton, IN 46714
Wells County

Coordinates: 40.728563, -85.129269

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