This stone picnic shelter was built by the Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC) in 1938 and repaired by CCC in 1989. (Harper & Smith) On March 31, 1933, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt created the CCC. The CCC was part of Roosevelt's New Deal. Roosevelt hoped that his New Deal would allow Americans to cope with the Great Depression, would help end the current economic downturn, and would help prevent another depression from occurring in the future.

The Civilian Conservation Corps hired unemployed American men between eighteen and twenty-five years of age to work on various government projects. These projects focused upon road construction, flood control, reforestation, and soil erosion prevention. CCC workers also improved or constructed local, state, and national parks. Government officials organized the CCC like a military unit, with workers living in camps, wearing uniforms, and serving in individual under the command of officers. CCC workers received thirty dollars per month in pay, but the government sent twenty-five dollars of that monthly income to the worker's family. The CCC covered the basic living expenses -- food, clothing, and housing -- for each worker. Government officials sent the bulk of a worker's income home to his family to help his relatives cope with the Great Depression. (Ohio History Central)