Black Hawk Lodge and State Park - Rock Island, Illinois
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N 41° 27.835 W 090° 34.385
15T E 702677 N 4593101
From 1933 to 1935 the Black Hawk CCC camp built six miles of hiking trails, trail structures, parking lots and two picnic shelters; planted thousands of trees and wildflowers; and constructed two-thirds of the present-day lodge.
Waymark Code: WM1Z7N
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 08/07/2007
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The following information is from the Black Hawk State Park Website:
From 1933 to 1935 a camp of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was located at Black Hawk. The CCC was the first and longest lasting of President Franklin Roosevelt's Depression-era government work programs. Camp Black Hawk employed more than two hundred veterans of the First World War. In exchange for clothing, room, board and a dollar a day, the CCC men created much of the site as it appears today. During the eighteen months they were stationed at the site, they built six miles of hiking trails, trail structures, parking lots and two picnic shelters; planted thousands of trees and wildflowers; and constructed two-thirds of the present-day lodge.
State architect Joseph Booton designed the lodge in 1932. Booton also designed the lodges at Starved Rock, Giant City and Pere Marquette state parks. Built of native limestone and timber, the Black Hawk lodge consists of three buildings connected by a covered walkway: the Hauberg Indian Museum, a Civilian Conservation Corps museum, and a central meeting hall. Featured in the main room are two murals painted in 1936 by Works Progress Administration (WPA) artist Otto Hake. The murals depict the seasonal activities of the Sauk and Mesquakie Indian people.
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