{"nrhp_refnum":"87000741","name":"Ravensburg State Park","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"8 mi. SE of Jersey Shore on PA 880","address_restricted":false,"city":"Loganton","county":"Clinton County","state":"PA","lat":41.10512210600004,"lon":-77.242551217536,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-05-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Conservation","Entertainment/Recreation","Politics/Government","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 78-acre state park with a historic district of CCC-built day-use facilities in Loganton, Clinton County, Pennsylvania, on PA Route 880 near Rauchtown. The district contains seven buildings and eight structures, including a log office/storage building, several pavilions and latrines, a dam and a warming pond.","why_significant":"The district is regarded as an excellent example of the roadside picnic areas built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in state forest areas. Its rustic design follows the National Park Service style, using local natural materials. The nomination also ties the buildings to the New Deal relief program and to the employment of jobless young men during the Depression.","narrative":"Ravensburg State Park is a 78-acre day-use area in Clinton County, Pennsylvania, near Rauchtown, surrounded by Tiadaghton State Forest. Civilian Conservation Corps Camp S-127 developed the park between 1933 and 1937. The district includes a single-story log office and storage building with saddle corners and a stone fireplace, originally used as a concession stand. Five pavilions, several of them with stone fireplaces, stand alongside a concrete and stone dam and a warming pond. Latrines built of wood and clapboard complete the group. The buildings and structures follow the rustic style promoted by the National Park Service, designed to blend with the landscape and built from local materials. The district is significant for its link to the Emergency Conservation Work program, one of the major New Deal relief efforts. The CCC employed thousands of young men, many of whom had been homeless before joining. The district was listed for its architecture, recreation and social history, and for its role in the development of Pennsylvania's state park system in the 1930s and early 1940s.","period_of_significance":"1925-1949","architect_builder":"CCC Camp S-127","architectural_style":"Rustic","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Day use; the form lists present use as Day Use and condition as good.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:32.453971-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/87000741.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87000741/c9c0f0ed82-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87000741/c9c0f0ed82-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"User:Ruhrfisch","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ravensburg_SP_Shelter.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">User:Ruhrfisch</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ravensburg_SP_Shelter.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71992798","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q98884897"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/clinton-county/ravensburg-state-park-87000741/"}