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Ledges Shelter, Truxell Road, Peninsula

Ledges Shelter, Truxell Road, Peninsula, Summit County, OH. Surveyed as HABS OHIO,77-PEN.V,3-, with 1 photograph and a 218-word written history.

From the record

“Structures such as the Ledges shelter made the Cuyahoga Valley area more accessible for recreational use.”

Written record, HABS OHIO,77-PEN.V,3- survey. Machine-read text.

surveyed by the federal HABS program as HABS OHIO,77-PEN.V,3- · the record runs 218 words · one of 65 surveyed structures published for this county.

Sources: the survey record at the Library of Congress

Ledges Shelter, Truxell Road, Peninsula, Summit County, OH, photograph filed with the federal survey

1 photograph from the federal survey record, Library of Congress.

Significance

155 words

Source document Quoted word for word from HABS OHIO,77-PEN.V,3-. Not written, edited or summarised by this site.

Structures such as the Ledges shelter made the Cuyahoga Valley area more accessible for recreational use. These buildings represent the work of the Civilian Conservation Corps in the area. Description: The building is a thirteen-room picnic shelter on a cruciform plan. On the east end of the building is a covered outdoor picnic area. The building also contains a two-story caretaker's residence. The wood used throughout chestnut, and the stone is local sandstone. History: This was the first building project of the Civilian Conservation Corps in what was then the Virginia Kendall Park of the Akron Metropolitan Park System, The architect, Albert H. Good, came from Akron and later served as a consultant to the National Park Service.

The building has always been used as a picnic shelter, and is now part of the Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area. # Source: Telephone conversation with Paulette Oswick, Architectural Historian, Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area, July 18,

In context

Peninsula, Ohio The place record: every map, photograph and survey of this town.
Summit County, Ohio 112 topographic sheets across the county.
Library of Congress record The original filed report, and the sheets the survey produced. Those published here appear above.

Also surveyed in Peninsula

14 records

The federal surveyors worked through Peninsula building by building. These are the other structures they measured and filed a report on, longest report first.

SheetStructure SurveyReport
Everett Forest Tree Nursery HALS OH-611,317 words
Ohio & Erie Canal, photograph filed with the federal surveyOhio & Erie CanalHAER OHIO,77-PEN.V,5-2,791 words
Octagon Shelter, photograph filed with the federal surveyOctagon ShelterHABS OHIO,77-PEN.V,4-2,149 words
Manatoc ReservationHABS OH-2483865 words
Kendall Lake Shelter, photograph filed with the federal surveyKendall Lake ShelterHABS OHIO,77-PEN.V,1-242 words
Happy Days Shelter, photograph filed with the federal surveyHappy Days ShelterHABS OHIO,77-PEN.V,2-212 words
Ohio & Erie Canal, photograph filed with the federal surveyOhio & Erie CanalHAER OHIO,77-PEN.V,6-46 words
Ohio & Erie Canal, photograph filed with the federal surveyOhio & Erie CanalHAER OHIO,77-PEN,2-46 words
Manatoc ReservationHABS OH-2483-C44 words
Manatoc ReservationHABS OH-2483-D44 words
Manatoc ReservationHABS OH-2483-E44 words
Manatoc ReservationHABS OH-2483-A43 words
Manatoc ReservationHABS OH-2483-B41 words
H. V. Bronson House, photograph filed with the federal surveyH. V. Bronson HouseHABS OHIO,77-PEN,1-25 words

Provenance

  • Written history. Quoted verbatim from HABS OHIO,77-PEN.V,3-. United States federal work, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Text capture. Machine-read from the scanned typescript filed with the survey, so spelling and spacing follow the original page.
  • How this page is made. Documentary passages are quoted from linked records; page labels and counts are clearly marked as presentation or calculations.