Shakamak State Park: Family Cabins – Jasonville IN

City:
Jasonville, IN

Site Type:
Parks and Recreation, Campgrounds and Cabins

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

Started:
1938

Completed:
1939

Description

The CCC completed nine identical family cabins between 1938 and 1939. The cabins are typical of CCC construction, and represent the movement in recreational developed in the 1930s toward promoting group and family camping.

Source notes

DNR Historic Site and Structures Inventory

Site originally submitted by Indiana Division of Historic Preservation/Nicole Cory on August 13, 2014.

Location Info


Shakamak State Park
Jasonville, IN 47438
Greene County

Coordinates: 39.178622, -87.246391

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