Built by the CCC, Unit 886 1934-35 (hexbear.net)

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Built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1934-35 by unit 886. Part of the New Deal, the men and women who made this worked over 40 hours a week, and took home $30 a month. Most of them apparently sent it back home as this was all on the tail end of the Great Depression.

It's pretty neat. The place is built from 'caliche-crete', which was a blend of concrete and the local caliche stone.

Pretty interesting, thinking about the people who built this, looking at the individual blocks and thinking about the toil in the hot Texas sun to build this place.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Appreciate the stonework but it looks a bit dreary?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Yeah, it was very utilitarian from the beginning I think. It's near 80+ years and the stonework is so soft that it really can't be scrubbed or power washed. They don't appear to do much maintenance or upkeep on the building.

On the other side of the building is a manmade lake and some step leading downward to what was at one time a boat dock/launch and some other stuff, but back in the 1950s they re-dammed the lake higher than it was originally done in the 1930s and some of that stuff has been lost for good. The are is in such severe drought that some of the stuff that was flooded back when is now becoming exposed again. The lake is at like 13% capacity.

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