Shawnee State Park visitors explore the ruins of CCC Camp Gordon (2012).

ID: 81 ~ Source: Image courtesy of Andrew Feight, Ph.D., from the Scioto Historical Series, private collection, Friendship, Ohio. ~ Creator: Andrew Feight, Ph.D.
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Shawnee State Park visitors explore the ruins of CCC Camp Gordon (2012).

The ridge-side chimney ruins of the Officers Quarters marks the location of CCC Camp Gordon. The enrollee barracks were located below, along the narrow strip of bottom land through which State Route 125 runs.

This file appears in: Wolfden Lake & CCC Camp Gordon

By Andrew Lee Feight, Ph.D.
Camp Gordon was one of seven Civilian Conservation Corps camps that were established in the Shawnee State Forest, beginning in 1933. Located in the Headwaters of Turkey Creek on State Route 125, Camp Gordon would be home to first, an all-white…