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  • Mary Buchman

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Crowley’s Ridge State Park: A High-Tech Marvel Built by the CCC

Feb 2017
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Mary Buchman

Crowley’s Ridge State Park was first constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s, and included is still a beautiful and historic site you can visit.

Crowley's Ridge Park CCC Structure

The Electric Chair

Apr 2016
  ⁄  
Arkansas State Parks Staff

Not too long after I moved to Northeast Arkansas I was talking with a local who wanted to know where I worked. When I told them that I worked at Crowley’s Ridge State Park they immediately asked “Have you seen the electric chair room?” No one had told me anything about an electric chair on the park grounds, so I asked about it when I went in to the office the next day. My...

The Electric Chair at Crowley’s Ridge State Park
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