Riverside State Park Picnic Shelter

ID: 5293 ~ Source: Image courtesy of Oregon State University.
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Riverside State Park Picnic Shelter

This image of a picnic shelter was featured in the 1937 CCC annual, as an example of the various buildings Company 949 added to Riverside State Park.

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By Elisheba R. Gearhardt
With unemployment during the Great Depression reaching nearly 25% in Spokane, thousands of young men in the Inland Northwest joined the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). Earning $30 per month, they obtained an education and vocational training…