Lake Leatherwood Park

United States historic place


Lake Leatherwood Park Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

Office and restroom building
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Location	Bet. US 62 and AR 23 at Leatherwood L., Eureka Springs, Arkansas
Area	1,600 acres (650 ha)
Built	1942; 82 years ago (1942)
Architectural style	Colonial Revival, Rustic
MPS	Facilities Constructed by the CCC in Arkansas MPS
NRHP reference No.	98001346^[1]
Added to NRHP	November 24, 1998

Lake Leatherwood Park is a municipal park on the north side of Eureka Springs, Arkansas. The park covers 1,600 acres (650 ha), and its centerpiece is Lake Leatherwood, a 100-acre (40 ha) body of water created by the Lake Leatherwood Dam, which impounds West Leatherwood Creek. The dam, along with roadways, recreational facilities, and other elements of the park, were built in the 1930s by work crews of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) with funding from the federal government's Soil Conservation Service.^[2]

The park is the subject of several listings on the National Register of Historic Places. Those recreational facilities built by the CCC in the 1930s were listed in 1992; the dam was also nominated at that time, but it was never formally listed, and its listing is recorded by the National Park Service as pending. The entire park was listed as a historic district in 1998.^[1]

Images

Outdoor fireplace
Cabins

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "NRHP nomination for Lake Leatherwood Park Historic District" (PDF). Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved March 1, 2015.