Construction of the Churn Creek Reservoir Dam (c. 1934)

ID: 22 ~ Source: Image courtesy of The Ohio State University. Ohio Agricultural Research & Development Center. Wooster OH. Forestry Images Collection. ~ Creator: Andrew Feight ~ Date: c. 1934
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Construction of the Churn Creek Reservoir Dam (c. 1934)

African American enrollees from Co. 584 work on the construction of Churn Creek Reservoir in Shawnee State Forest, Adams County, Ohio.

This file appears in: Burning of CCC Camp Adams

By Andrew Feight, Ph.D.
In June of 1936, Robert Fechner, the Director of the Civilian Conservation Corps addressed a letter to two Ohio senators, Robert J. Bulkley and Vic Donahey, regarding complaints he had received from Nimrod B. Allen, Secretary of the Columbus Urban…