{"nrhp_refnum":"12000906","name":"Twin Lakes State Park","other_names":["Goodwin Lake State Park","VDHR No. 073-0070","Prince Edward State Park for Negroes"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"788 Twin Lakes Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Green Bay","county":"Prince Edward County","state":"VA","lat":37.17518811800005,"lon":-78.27442203361991,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2012-10-31","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Black","Entertainment/Recreation","Landscape Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district made up of two former recreational parks, Goodwin Lake and Prince Edward State Park for Negroes, now combined as Twin Lakes State Park near Green Bay in Prince Edward County, Virginia. The two parks were developed between 1939 and 1950 within Prince Edward State Forest.","why_significant":"The park is argued to be significant as one of four recreational development areas created by the Virginia Division of Forestry with New Deal programs such as the CCC and WPA. Its planning and rustic architecture reflect National Park Service design ideas, including a central manmade lake, separated use areas, and buildings of natural or local materials. Its Prince Edward Lake side was also established as a state park for Black Virginians.","narrative":"Twin Lakes State Park lies about three miles north of State Route 460 in Prince Edward County, Virginia, inside Prince Edward State Forest. It combines two earlier parks: Goodwin Lake Recreational Area, established in 1939, and Prince Edward State Park for Negroes, established in 1949. Each is organized around a manmade lake, 15-acre Goodwin Lake and 36-acre Prince Edward Lake. The district includes cabins, picnic shelters, a conference center, ranger housing, maintenance buildings, dams, spillways and a system of roads and trails. Among the older buildings are a ca. 1936 picnic shelter of hewn cedar logs and concrete block cabins built in 1949-1950. The park was one of four recreational development areas created by the Virginia Division of Forestry with CCC and WPA help during the Depression. Although it was not held to the strict standards of the National Park Service state parks, its entrance roads, lake-centered layout, separated use areas and natural-material buildings show their influence. These qualities, and its role in state park history, support its listing as a historic district.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Rustic; Post-Modern","criteria":[],"status_note":"The park remains in use for outdoor recreation, with camping, cabins, picnic shelters, a conference center, trails and two lakes. The form says both areas retain a great deal of integrity.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.334906-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/72/6788/41678872/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/12000906.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000906/de9d211a7a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/12000906/de9d211a7a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 2.0","author":"Virginia State Parks staff","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Twin_Lakes_State_Parks_Cedar_Crest_Conference_Center_(10029234324).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia State Parks staff</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Twin_Lakes_State_Parks_Cedar_Crest_Conference_Center_(10029234324).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41678872","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_Lakes_State_Park_(Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7858222"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/prince-edward-county/twin-lakes-state-park-12000906/"}