Pulaski State Park is a 100-acre state park near the village of
Chepachet in
Glocester, Rhode Island
Glocester is a town in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 9,974 as of the 2020 census. The villages of Chepachet and Harmony are in Glocester. Putnam Pike ( U.S. Route 44) runs west through the town center of Gl ...
. It was founded in 1939 and contains a day use facility inside the George Washington Management Area with a beach and covered picnic areas. 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 ...
built a road to the park when "
1940, the state acquired a lease from the federal government for what is now the Casimir Pulaski State Park and Peck Pond in what is now the Glocester-Burrillville line. "
[Ethan Shorey, "Across northern R.I. are signs of the Civilian Conservation Corps," ''Valley Breeze'' http://www.valleybreeze.com/2019-01-02/cumberland-lincoln-area/across-northern-ri-are-signs-civilian-conservation-corps#.XWs-KJNKi-s]
References
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State parks of Rhode Island
Protected areas of Providence County, Rhode Island
Glocester, Rhode Island
Protected areas established in 1939
1939 establishments in Rhode Island
Lakes of Providence County, Rhode Island