Lake Accontik Park CCC Fire Trail
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Title
Lake Accontik Park CCC Fire Trail
Description
A CCC made fire trail through Lake Accontik Park in Springfield Virginia. The trail is mostly overgrown at this point in time but the forest surrounding it is still beautiful.
Creator
Natalie Grace Farrey
Date
1933
Rights
Creative Commons
Language
English
Place-Based Stories Item Type Metadata
Date
October 14th, 2019
Format
A picture of the commemorative CCC sign, a video of the forest that surrounds the now overgrown trails, and a screenshot of notes taken at the site.
Narrative
This now overgrown site pays tribute to the workers of the CCC and showed me that not everything they did lasted as long as some other projects such as the state parks. This fire trail would have required so much painstaking labor to build yet it is now overgrown and is extremely hard to find. I decided to document this site using my phone to capture it's beauty and remoteness, plus this modern day technology allowed me to show others what the site looks like without then actually having to be there. However, technology can't capture the work the CCC team put into this site or the difficulty that came with finding the overgrown fire trail. I believe it is because it has been mostly forgotten that it plays more importance in our learning of history because something that required that much hard labor should not be forgotten.
Collection
Citation
Natalie Grace Farrey, “Lake Accontik Park CCC Fire Trail,” HIST 390 The Digital Past: A Cultural New Deal, accessed September 18, 2026, https://jessicadoeshistory.com/cnd/items/show/236.