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Bard Springs Dam No. 2

Athens, Polk County

Photograph of Bard Springs Dam No. 2
Photo: Valis55, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons License. Source

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

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.