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Starved Rock State Park: The Work of the CCC Along the I&M Canal (IL) (Images of America)

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Visitors to Starved Rock State Park are incessantly struck by the grandeur of its rustic lodge. They marvel at its massive fireplace and hand-hewn logs. Yet few realize that this structure is a tangible reminder of the Civilian Conservation Corps, which Within the 1930s provided work for young men left unemployed by the Great Depression. Starved Rock Lodge used to be one of the crucial biggest projects of the “CCC boys” along the Illinois and Michigan Canal, but it surely used to be a ways from the one one. Working as a team and living in camps from Willow Springs to L. a. Salle-Peru, they built facilities that transformed the old canal into what was the I&M Canal State Trail (1974) and the nation’s first National Heritage Corridor (1984). President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s nation-wide program preserved the landscape from the ravages of soil erosion, flooding, and deforestation. Within the process, the young men built beautiful parks, buildings, and shelters that we use and admire as of late.

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