Shady Lake Picnic Pavilion
Mena, Polk County
Men of Camp Shady's 742nd Company, the same CCC company that built the Shady Lake dam, built this picnic pavilion around 1940 as part of the lake's public recreation area. Their stone bridges, finished in December 1936, carry the road around the lake.
- Kind of place
- Parks and recreation
- Built by
- Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
- When
- 1936 to 1940
- Where
- Mena, Polk County
- Still there?
- Not confirmed lately
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Sources
- National Register of Historic Places nomination
- Encyclopedia of Arkansas: Shady Lake CCC Bridges
- Inventory source for this place
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