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For Civilian Conservation Corps projects in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Pages in category "Civilian Conservation Corps in Oklahoma" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
The park offers outdoor recreation opportunities including camping, hiking, fishing and wildlife watching. Park facilities include picnic tables and shelters, 20 semi-modern RV campsites, 16 tent sites and 8 cabins. Several of the park's structures are historic parkitecture built by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the 1930s and 1940s.
Poster by Albert M. Bender, produced by the Illinois WPA Art Project Chicago in 1935 for the CCC CCC boys leaving camp in Lassen National Forest for home. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a voluntary government work relief program that ran from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men ages 18–25 and eventually expanded to ages 17–28. [1]
The state park was created in 1937 by the Civilian Conservation Corps as part of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal programs. [ 5 ] The state park was named after the Cheyenne chief Henry Roman Nose , who died in the canyon in 1917.
The park originated in the 1930s and was named for its springs. [4] It was constructed as a park from the natural environment by the Civilian Conservation Corps. [5] The park received its current name because its sandy-bottom springs appear to be boiling because of the inrush of subsurface water.
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"Bromide Pavilion" built by Civilian Conservation Corps in Platt National Park. Photo made July 12, 2007. In 1902, Orville H. Platt, a U.S. Senator from the state of Connecticut, introduced legislation to establish the 640-acre Sulphur Springs Reservation, protecting 32 freshwater and mineral springs, in Murray County, Oklahoma (then part of Indian Territory).
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