Crystal Springs Camp Shelter

Womble, Montgomery County

CCC Company 741 was camped right here at Crystal Springs when it built a fieldstone dam across Montgomery Creek in 1935, making a swimming pond, and a log picnic shelter just downstream. Both were listed on the National Register in 1993, but the shelter was destroyed in 2016 when a tree fell on it.

Kind of place: Parks and recreation
Built by: Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
When: About 1935
Where: Womble, Montgomery County
Still there?: Reported gone

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Sources

Encyclopedia of Arkansas: Crystal Springs Dam and Camp Shelter
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.