- City:
- Angola, IN
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation, Picnic and Other Facilities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
- Completed:
- 1935
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Partially Extant
Description
Records indicate that Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) enrollees constructed six stone drinking fountains with gabled shelters around the park in 1935. Five remain.
The drinking fountains are classified as Park Rustic.
They are not marked; only two sites in the park are marked individually as CCC. But the old gatehouse is now a CCC Pocket Museum with exhibits 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.
At this Location:
- Pokagon State Park: CCC Pocket Museum - Angola IN
- Pokagon State Park Development - Angola IN
- Pokagon State Park: Fish Rearing Ponds (former) - Angola IN
- Pokagon State Park: Potawatomi Inn Bathhouse - Angola IN
- Pokagon State Park: Overnight Cabins - Angola IN
- Pokagon State Park: Saddle Barn - Angola IN
- Pokagon State Park: CCC Camp SP 7 (demolished) - Angola IN
- Pokagon State Park: Office Building - Angola IN
- Pokagon State Park: CCC Shelter House - Angola IN
- Pokagon State Park: Beach and Bathhouse - Angola IN
- Pokagon State Park: Group Camp - Angola IN
- Pokagon State Park: Spring Shelter - Angola IN
- Pokagon State Park: Toboggan Slide - Angola IN
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