Final Survey Report: Intensive-Level Survey of New Deal-Era State Parks in Oklahoma, June 1993
Oklahoma State Historic Preservation Office. 1993. Final Survey Report: Intensive-Level Survey of New Deal-Era State Parks in Oklahoma, June 1993. Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department; Oklahoma Historical Society
Abstract: "The Oklahoma State Historic Preservation Office conducted an architectural/historic resource survey of ten state parks in cooperation with the Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department. All ten parks were developed during the New Deal (1933-1942). The survey was designed to assist the Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department in understanding which parks contained historically and architecturally significant resources, identifying resources that were eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places, and planning for the preservation of significant resources. Of the ten parks surveyed, Greenleaf State Park, Lake Murray State Park, Osage Hills State Park, and Robbers Cave State Park appear to be eligible in their entirety for listing in the National Register of Historic Places as outstanding examples of park landscapes designed by the national Park Service and built by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and other New Deal agencies. Lake Murray State Park and Robbers Cave State Park merit consideration as National Historic Landmarks, due to the quality of the park designs, the integrity of the historic landscapes, and the histories of the parks, all of which incorporate significant aspects in addition to their primary association with the CCC. In addition, portions of Beavers Bend State Park, Boiling Springs State Park, Quartz Mountain State Park, and Roman Nose State Park appear to be eligible for listing in the National Register as locally outstanding designed landscapes or as historic districts. Neither Clayton Lake State Park nor Lake Okmulgee State Park appear eligible as designed landscapes or districts. The dam at Lake Okmulgee State Park, however, may be eligible for individual listing." Funding was provided in part by a Historic Preservation Fund grant administered by the Oklahoma State Historic Preservation Office and the State, Tribal, and Local Plans and Grants Division, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.
- Type
- Generic Document
- Authors
- Oklahoma State Historic Preservation Office
- Date of Issue
- 1993-06
- Publisher
- Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department; Oklahoma Historical Society
- Units
- HPF
- Keywords
- Historic Resource Surveys (Resource Type)