The Franklin Lake Campground is located in

Alvin, Wisconsin Alvin is a town in Forest County, Wisconsin, Forest County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 157 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. The town was named after Alvin Spencer, a Baptist minister from Powell County, Kentucky who ...

. It was added to the

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in 1988.

History

The campground was put together by the

Civilian Conservation Corps The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a voluntary government work relief program that ran from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men ages 18–25 and eventually expanded to ages 17–28. The CCC was a major part of ...

and the

Works Progress Administration The Works Progress Administration (WPA; renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers (mostly men who were not formally educated) to carry out public works projects, i ...

of the

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. It is located within the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest.

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Parks on the National Register of Historic Places in Wisconsin Campgrounds in the United States Geography of Forest County, Wisconsin Civilian Conservation Corps in Wisconsin Works Progress Administration in Wisconsin National Register of Historic Places in Forest County, Wisconsin Temporary populated places on the National Register of Historic Places {{Camping-stub