Mawavi Historic District, Chopawamsic RDA Camp 2

Camp 2, known as Mawavi, is a girls' organized camp within Prince William Forest Park, Virginia. Built between 1936 and 1938 by Civilian Conservation Corps enrollees and WPA laborers, it covers about 132 acres. The buildings are arranged like a wheel, with a dining hall, administration, infirmary and staff quarters at the hub and four unit camps around it. Each unit has a lodge, a latrine, leaders' cabins and small cabins. The buildings are raised on concrete piers and clad in locally cut pine or oak waney board, with a stone chimney or hearth on some. A concrete dam on the South Branch of Quantico Creek created the camp lake. Five Mawavi buildings were published as model facilities in national park design handbooks. The district was listed as an example of New Deal recreation planning and rustic architecture, with 58 contributing resources and three non-contributing ones.