Civilian Conservation Corps Camp at F.D. Roosevelt State Park

In 1935, the Civilian Conservation Corps established a camp near what is now the park entrance on Highway 354. From that base, young men built the Liberty Bell Pool, the Roosevelt Lodge, several cabins, and two lakes — Lake Delanor and Lake Franklin — shaping nearly all of what visitors walk through today. Because the western half of the park preserves that CCC design and layout largely intact, it was designated a National Historic Landmark District in 1997. The work endures.