Civilian Conservation Corp Museum - Big Pool, Maryland
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flyingmoose
N 39° 36.553 W 078° 00.227
17S E 757230 N 4388674
CCC Museum near the entrance of Fort Frederick.
Waymark Code: WM18463
Location: Maryland, United States
Date Posted: 05/26/2023
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A CCC site that turned a neglected fort into a beautiful historically significantly State Park. The work they did here was captured in this CCC Museum near the entrance of the fort.
From the Maryland Department of Natural Resources:
After the Civil War, various local patriotic organizations kept the 1756 stone fort's history alive, and in 1922 the State repurchased the crumbling walls and adjacent land to begin development of Maryland's first state park.
During the Great Depression, Company 1353 of the Civilian Conservation Corps was assigned to the park to reconstruct the stone walls, and perform archaeology work in order to locate the foundations of the original interior buildings. They also were tasked with developing the park land.
In 1934, Camp SP-1 started out as tent city just south of the fort, but soon grew into a u-shaped camp west of the fort. The camp included three barracks, shower houses, recreation hall, kitchen and mess hall, officers’ quarters, hospital, forester’s office and classroom as well as several sheds. At that time the CCC also constructed a park visitor center (now the CCC Museum), Superintendent’s House (now the Park Store), horse stables (now the park’s Nature Center), blacksmith shop and garage all in a colonial style. In addition to the work around the fort the CCC constructed a picnic area with public restrooms and a picnic pavilion that can still be used by visitors to this day. Members of Company 1353 also worked at Washington Monument State Park. - (
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