Craighead Forest Park
Jonesboro, Craighead County
In 1937 Jonesboro's Young Men's Civic Club started work on a community park. With help from Senator Hattie Caraway, the WPA approved a $100,000 park program, and the CCC also worked on it.
- Kind of place
- Forests, fire towers and conservation
- Built by
- Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
- When
- 1937 to 1941
- Where
- Jonesboro, Craighead 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.