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Bard Springs Dam No. 1

Athens, Polk County

Photograph of Bard Springs Dam No. 1
Photo: Jerry Turner, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons License. Source

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.

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

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Sources

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