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CLEAR SPRINGS RECREATION AREA PICNIC PAVILION, HOMOCHITTO NATIONAL FOREST

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1935–1937. U.S. 84, 5 miles west of Meadville

In addition to replanting trees on about a million acres of cutover farmland in Mississippi, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) erected lodges and camps at ten state parks established in the 1930s. The Corps also constructed smaller recreational areas in the state’s four new national forests, including this pavilion and its nearby lake. The T-shaped rustic shelter is built to a Southern Regional office standard plan adapted from the drawings of U.S. Forest Service architect W. Ellis Groben. A massive brick chimney anchors the open structure, and its wood-shake roof is supported by king trusses. Skinned logs laid up with saddle notching partially enclose built-in slab seating and the original picnic tables.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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FRANKLIN COUNTY COURTHOUSE
OLD NATIONAL GUARD ARMORY

Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "CLEAR SPRINGS RECREATION AREA PICNIC PAVILION, HOMOCHITTO NATIONAL FOREST", [Bunkley, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-ND15.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 27-27.

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