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Paris Mountain State Park, Bathhouse, Paris Mountain State Park, off SC Route 253, Greenville, Greenville, SC

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Paris Mountain State Park, Bathhouse, Paris Mountain State Park, off SC Route 253, Greenville, Greenville, SC

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Summary

Significance: Built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s. The CCC was a program of the Emergency Conservation Corps Work Act (ECW) passed by Congress under administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Purpose was to ease the critical unemployment situation for America's young men and to provide for the conservation of the nation's devastated forest and soil resources. Its activities also accelerated the development of state and national parks and resulted in the building of numerous park structures which would be significant to the development of twentieth century park architecture.
Survey number: HABS SC-598
Building/structure dates: ca. 1935 Initial Construction

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1935
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Contributors

Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Civilian Conservation Corps
Cary, Brian
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Location

Greenville (S.C.)34.89332, -82.40060
Google Map of 34.8933242, -82.4006031
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