Pleasant Historic District, Chopawamsic RDA Camp 4

Camp 4, known as Pleasant, is a summer camp complex within Prince William Forest Park near Triangle, Virginia. Covering about 132 acres, it was built between 1937 and 1940 by Civilian Conservation Corps and Works Progress Administration crews as part of the Chopawamsic Recreational Demonstration Area. Its buildings are arranged like the spokes of a wheel. A hub of dining hall, craft building, infirmary, administration and staff quarters is surrounded by five unit camps, each with a lodge, a latrine and three cabins for eight to 10 campers. Construction relied on local timber, hewn into bark-edged waney board siding, with concrete piers and foundations. The district also includes two dams that form a lake on Quantico Creek, a recreation building used as a basketball court and theater, and a cable suspension footbridge from about 1936. It contains 36 contributing buildings, three contributing structures and three non-contributing resources. Its simple rustic design and its role as a model recreation project account for its listing.