View of the Old Mackletree Road Bridge, Shawnee State Park, constructed in 1934 by Co. 1545 of the Civilian Conservation Corps (April 2016).

ID: 351 ~ Source: Image courtesy of Andrew Feight, Ph.D., from the Scioto Historical Series, private collection, Friendship, Ohio. ~ Creator: Andrew Feight, Ph.D. ~ Date: 2016
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View of the Old Mackletree Road Bridge, Shawnee State Park, constructed in 1934 by Co. 1545 of the Civilian Conservation Corps (April 2016).

In 2016, the historic stone bridge across Turkey Creek was replaced with a modern single-span structure. This photograph captures the old bridge just before its demolition. Stones from the original structure were incorporated into a new CCC Stone Memorial in Shawnee State Park.

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By Andrew Feight, Ph.D.
In 1934, a segregated, all-black Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) unit of enrollees, known as Company 1545, dammed the waters of Mackletree Run and Turkey Creek, creating Roosevelt Lake, the centerpiece of a new state park in southern Ohio’s Scioto…