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Photographer: Don Morfe
Taken: November 9, 2015
Caption: Greenwood Furnace State Forest Park
Additional Description: "Greenwood Furnace Will Be Changed Into Park" The Decade of the 1930's was one of the greatest in terms of conservation work in PA's forests. President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), in 1933. Their purpose was two-fold--to ease the unemployment of young men while performing conservation work. New facilities were needed as the park was growing in popularity' Three different CCC camps built facilities in the park. The dam was rebuilt and included an electrical generator. The beach was enlarged and bordered by a stone wall and a new dressing stockade was built. These facilities used local stone and logs in their construction, and were designed to look like they are part of the natural environment. Some still survive today --a testament to the young men of the Civilian Conservation Corps.
Submitted: November 21, 2015, by Don Morfe of Baltimore, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p338981
File Size: 3.585 Megabytes

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