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Iron Springs Shelter No. 1

Jessieville, Garland County

Photograph of Iron Springs Shelter No. 1
Photo: Valis55, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons License. Source

The CCC's 3767th Company built this log picnic shelter on Highway 7 north of Jessieville around 1933, the Corps' first year. Along with a second shelter and a small dam, it made the roadside spring a place to swim and picnic.

Kind of place
Parks and recreation
Built by
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
When
About 1933
Where
Jessieville, Garland 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.