Bard Springs Bathhouse

Athens, Polk County

CCC men from Camp Shady built this fieldstone bathhouse around 1936. Its corners slope inward as they rise, a detail you see on a lot of CCC stonework. The Bard Springs area also has a CCC picnic shelter and two small dams on the creek.

Kind of place: Parks and recreation
Built by: Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
When: About 1936
Where: Athens, Polk County
Still there?: Not confirmed lately

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Sources

National Register of Historic Places nomination
Inventory source for this place

Part of Rediscovering Arkansas’s New Deal, a public map of 1930s New Deal work across all 75 counties. Updated 2026-10-14.