Holliday Lake State Park

Holliday Lake State Park occupies about 255 acres in the Appomattox-Buckingham State Forest in Appomattox County, Virginia. Its center is a 150-acre manmade lake, reached by a long entry drive that follows the land's contours. The park began as one of four recreational development areas created by the Virginia Division of Forestry, working with the Civilian Conservation Corps and Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression. It was not built to strict National Park Service standards, yet it shares their approach: separate activity areas, a water feature as the organizing element, and buildings of natural materials. Surviving historic resources include a Rustic log picnic shelter from the 1930s, a brick well house of about 1939, the dam, spillway and bridge, slate drainage culverts, a rubble retaining wall and the circulation system. Campground, offices, restrooms, boathouses and residences added from the 1970s onward are counted as noncontributing. The park became Holliday Lake State Park in 1972 and remains a recreation area.