New Priorities of Protection
Rock walls communicate that a place is important and worth of protection -- a sanctuary. In the 1940s, Civilian conservation Corps (CCC) enrollees were using the boulders scattered before you to erect a rock wall guarding Lake Greenwood State Park.
Following the sneak attack of Pearl Harbor in 1941, however, they dropped their work and were given a new sanctuary to protect -- the United States. The country had entered World War II, and like other CCC men from across the nation, those building the rock wall at Lake Greenwood were deployed to fight. They traded their axes and shovels for rifles and ammunition.
This August 1941 drawing shows how the entrance wall would have looked upon completion. The CCC workers began construction in the fall but were interrupted when war broke out that December.
Marker is at the intersection of State Park Road and Ware Street / Woodland Way (South Carolina Route 702), on the right when traveling north on State Park Road.
Courtesy hmdb.org
