Friday, February 26, 2016

CCC Work Camp Statue in Wisconsin-- Part 4: Fox River Park

Jon Rudie is Kenosha County's general manager of park operations and said he became aware of the CCC as a teen when he worked for the Young Adult Conservation Corps one summer and saw all the work they had done in northern Wisconsin.

He said that right away he recognized the buildings and stone wall in Fox River Park as being built in the CCC style.

Beyond the buildings, the CCC built the ball fields at the park which are in an area the corps filled in by hand.  On the banks of the Fox River north of Highway F, they built a fieldstone revetment and retaining walls made of hand cut Tamarack planks.  According to Rudie, you can still see the planks when the water is low.

--CootCCC

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