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