{"nrhp_refnum":"01000611","name":"Lake Fannin Organizational Camp","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"1 mi. W jct of Cty. Rd. 2025 and State Farm-to-Market Rd. 2554, Caddo National Grasslands","address_restricted":false,"city":"Duplex","county":"Fannin County","state":"TX","lat":33.77796049400007,"lon":-96.15689490274934,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-06-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Conservation","Entertainment/Recreation","Landscape Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Depression-era public recreation camp district near Duplex, Fannin County, Texas, on the Lake Fannin Unit of the Caddo National Grasslands. It includes a lodge, bathhouse, latrine, cabins, a caretaker's complex, and an earthen dam and 75-acre lake, built in the 1930s under the Resettlement Administration.","why_significant":"The camp is argued to be a representative New Deal public works project built on reclaimed, eroded farmland, tied to Congressman Sam Rayburn's influence. Its Rustic design and planned landscape are distinctive of 1930s federal projects. It also provided a recreation resource previously unavailable to Fannin County residents.","narrative":"Lake Fannin Organizational Camp is a group of rustic stone and log buildings on a bluff above the Red River near Duplex, Texas, overlooking a 75-acre lake. It was developed in the 1930s by the Resettlement Administration on badly eroded farmland, using workers drawn from county relief rolls. The district includes a large stone lodge, a bathhouse, a latrine, a caretaker's complex, an earthen dam and several surviving cabins. Sixteen cabins were originally built; seven have been lost to structural collapse, demolition and arson. The camp is valued as an example of New Deal public works, soil conservation and planned landscape design in the Rustic style, and for its link to Congressman Sam Rayburn. It served as a popular public recreation site until 1956. The complex is now vacant, and its buildings were mothballed in the mid-1990s, though several roofs and foundations continue to deteriorate.","period_of_significance":"1933-1956","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Other: Rustic","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Listed as vacant/not in use; buildings were mothballed in 1995-1996. Seven of the 16 original cabins have been destroyed, and several surviving structures have roof or foundation failures.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:23.293875-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/28/9719/40971928/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/01000611.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40971928","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109999212"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/fannin-county/lake-fannin-organizational-camp-01000611/"}