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Chopawamsic Recreational Demonstration Area - Cabin Camp 1, Prince William Forest Park, Triangle, Prince William County, VA
- Title: Chopawamsic Recreational Demonstration Area - Cabin Camp 1, Prince William Forest Park, Triangle, Prince William County, VA
- Other Title:
Prince William Forest Park
Prince William Forest Park Cabin Camp 1 - Goodwill - Creator(s): Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
- Related Names:
U.S. Recreational Demonstration Area (RDA)
Camp Lichtman
Twelfth Street YMCA
Arzola, Robert R. , project manager
Davidson, Paul , field team
De Sousa, Daniel , delineator
McNatt, Jason W. , delineator
Davidson, Lisa Pfueller , historian
Rosenthal, James W. , photographer
U.S. National Park Service (NPS), National Capital Region (NCR) , sponsor - Date Created/Published: Documentation compiled after 1933
- Medium:
Measured Drawing(s): 3
Data Page(s): 38 - Reproduction Number: ---
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- Call Number: HABS VA-1494
- Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
- Notes:
- Significance: The group cabin camping facilities at Cabin Camp 1 were built by the National Park Service with Civilian Conservation Corps labor as part of the development of Chopawamsic Recreational Demonstration Area (RDA) in 1935-38. The RDA program was a New Deal initiative of the National Park Service which repurposed underutilized agricultural land near urban centers into outdoor recreational areas. Chopawasmic RDA turned 11,000 acres of small farms and an abandoned pyrite mine along Quantico Creek in Prince William County and Stafford County, Virginia into a model recreation area with five cabin camps. The camps at Chopawamsic were intended to serve social service groups in Washington, DC that offered group camping experiences to underprivileged children. Camp 1 features rustic log and heavy timber buildings representative of the National Park Service/Civilian Conservation Corps aesthetic of the 1930s. The buildings share a characteristic waney-edge siding that retains the irregular profile of the log, and is applied in vertical and horizontal sections. Log posts and log faced heavy timbers also add to the rustic appearance of the Chopawamsic structures. Camp 1, like the other four Chopawamsic camps, includes a cluster of administration buildings dining hall, infirmary, staff quarters, administration building, craft lodge, central washhouse, and helps' quarters and multiple cabin units. Each cabin unit had a cluster of camper cabins, leader cabins, a latrine, and a unit lodge. The four cabin units at Camp 1 have replacement cabins, but retain their original site plan and unit lodge buildings. Camp 1 is also noteworthy in that it was one of two Chopawamsic camps (with nearby Camp 4) designated for African-American campers at an early date. Camp 1 was used as Camp Lichtman for many years, hosting groups of African-American boys from the Twelfth Street YMCA in Washington, DC. This use resulted in a codification of local segregation practices with separate entrances for the black camps on the north side of the site and white camps on the south. However, Camp 1 provided new camping facilities laid out according to the latest ideas in recreational planning at a time when few options were available to African-American groups. By the 1960s, Camp 1 was used as co-ed and integrated Camp Goodwill by Family and Child Services of Washington, DC.
- Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1809
- Survey number: HABS VA-1494
- Building/structure dates: 1935-1938 Initial Construction
- Building/structure dates: 1942 Subsequent Work
- National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 89000456
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- Latitude/Longitude: 38.59698, -77.355997
- Collections:
- Part of: Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
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- Reproduction Number: ---
- Call Number: HABS VA-1494
- Medium:
Measured Drawing(s): 3
Data Page(s): 38
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Measured Drawing(s): 3
Data Page(s): 38
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