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Kooser State Park
Kooser State Park Family Cabin District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Two of the cabins
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Nearest city
Jefferson, Pennsylvania
Area
9.2 acres (3.7 ha)
Built
1933
Architect
Civilian Conservation Corps
Architectural style
Log Cabin style
MPS
Emergency Conservation Work (ECW) Architecture in Pennsylvania State Parks: 1933-1942, TR
NRHP reference No.
87000111[2]
Added to NRHP
February 12, 1987
Kooser State Park is a 250-acre (101 ha) Pennsylvania state park in Jefferson Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. The park, which borders Forbes State Forest, was built in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps, who also built the 4-acre (1.6 ha) Kooser Lake by damming Kooser Run. Kooser State Park is on Pennsylvania Route 31 a one-hour drive from Pittsburgh. The park is surrounded by Forbes State Forest.
^"Kooser State Park". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. August 2, 1979. Retrieved April 2, 2008.
^"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
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