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A CCC Built Park

As one of Oregon's best examples of an intact historically master-planned state park, Honeyman was master planned by the NPS during the 1930s. In order to build depression-era parks, a huge workforce of willing and able young men was assembled known as the CCC. The CCC was a “New Deal” emergency relief work program begun by the Roosevelt administration in 1933. The jobs it created helped alleviate some of the worst suffering of the Great Depression, and in Oregon, helped build numerous state parks. The 1213th company of the CCC was stationed at Woahink Lake and made Honeyman State Park a reality. Their crowning achievement is the lodge at Cleawox Lake. The building opened in 1939 as a bathhouse, and now serves as the camp store. The CCC work was directed by the NPS who collaborated with Oregon State Parks to design and implement the master plan for Honeyman during the 1930’s and early 1940s. NPS designers followed rustic principles of design that stressed traditional craftwork and the importance of locating development in a natural setting, which also minimized disturbance of natural resources.

The full plan and additional references to the CCC work in the park can be found in the Jessie M. Honeyman Memorial State Park Master Plan (PDF).