The State Park Supply Yard is a historic maintenance facility at 51 Mill Road in

Madison, Connecticut Madison is a town in the southeastern corner of New Haven County, Connecticut, United States, occupying a central location on Connecticut's Long Island Sound shoreline. The population was 17,691 at the 2020 census. Madison was first settled in 16 ...

. The facility buildings were built in 1933-35 by crews of 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 remain a well-preserved example of the Corps' work. Still used by the state, the facility was listed on the

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in 1986.

Description and history

The State Park Supply Yard is located in southeastern Madison, on the west side of Mill Road north of

United States Route 1 U.S. Route 1 or U.S. Highway 1 (US 1) is a major north–south United States Numbered Highway that serves the East Coast of the United States. It runs from Key West, Florida, north to Fort Kent, Maine, at the Canadian border, making ...

. It occupies about one-half of a parcel of land that is a discontiguous portion of Hammonasset Beach State Park. The property's main feature is the barn, a large single-story wood frame structure with a hip roof that is topped by a hipped clerestory ridge. It has three garage door openings, one of which retains its original doors. Also included in the complex are an office building, pump house, supply shed, oil house, and workshop. One distinctive remnant of the period is a small frame structure which shelters a period concrete vault toilet. With The yard was built out by crews of the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1933-35 as a maintenance and supply yard for the state park system. It remained in this use until 1951, and was then repurposed by the state for other uses. At the time of its listing on the

in 1986, it was being used by the state health department's mosquito control program. It is the best-preserved of the state's early park maintenance yards.

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{{National Register of Historic Places National Register of Historic Places in New Haven County, Connecticut Industrial buildings completed in 1933 Madison, Connecticut Civilian Conservation Corps in Connecticut 1933 establishments in Connecticut

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