New Deal places in Polk County

CCC men from Camp Shady built this fieldstone bathhouse around 1936.

Bard Springs is a small day-use area beside a mountain stream in the Ouachita National Forest.

CCC Company 742 built this roadside overlook in 1935: a stone wall 70 feet long and 12 feet tall, made of quarried novaculite and topped with rubblestone, so drivers on Forest Road 38 could pull over and take in the Ouachita view.

The CCC's 742nd Company, the second CCC camp in Arkansas, started building the Shady Lake dam in 1935.

Men of Camp Shady's 742nd Company, the same CCC company that built the Shady Lake dam, built this picnic pavilion around 1940 as part of the lake's public recreation area.

Shady Lake is a 25-acre lake in the Ouachita National Forest.

Another 1935 roadside pullout by CCC Company 742 on Forest Road 38, this one an 84-foot stone wall about 14 feet tall.

The WPA put $110,000 into this four-story Art Deco courthouse in Mena, finished in 1939 and designed by Haralson & Mott of Fort Smith.

Men of the CCC's 742nd Company, from the Mena Camp near Shady, built two small dams at Bard Springs around 1936 to make a swimming area next to their bathhouse and picnic shelter.

The second of the two small CCC dams at Bard Springs, built around 1936 by the 742nd Company.

CCC crews built this stone bridge over the South Fork of the Saline River at Shady Lake in 1936.

Camp Shady's CCC crews finished this stone bridge in December 1936 as part of the Shady Lake dam project begun in October 1935.

The CCC built this lookout tower near Mena around 1938.

This two-story lookout on Forest Service Road 38A southeast of Mena has a fieldstone first floor with the inward-sloping corners that mark CCC stonework, topped by a wood lookout room.