Mackletree Road Shelter House, Roosevelt Lake, Shawnee State Park.

ID: 93 ~ Source: Image courtesy of Andrew Lee Feight, Ph.D., from the Scioto Historical Series, private collection, Friendship, Ohio. ~ Creator: Andrew Lee Feight, Ph.D.

This file appears in: Roosevelt Lake Overlook Trail & the Mackletree Shelter House

Mackletree Road Shelter House, Roosevelt Lake, Shawnee State Park.

This file appears in: Roosevelt Lake Overlook Trail & the Mackletree Shelter House

Roosevelt Lake Overlook Trail & the Mackletree Shelter House

By Andrew Lee Feight, Ph.D.

With the completion of the Roosevelt Lake Dam in 1934, the Civilian Conservation Corps enrollees of Company 1545 from nearby Camp Roosevelt, built two shelter houses for visitors to the new Roosevelt Lake Park (what is now known as Shawnee State…