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Cream Hill Shelter

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Cream Hill Shelter

Cornwall, Connecticut, United States
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lean-to in Cornwall, United States of America

The Cream Hill Shelter is a rustic log shelter in Housatonic State Forest in Cornwall, Connecticut. Built in 1988, it replaced what was at the time one of three surviving log shelters constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps in Connecticut. The historic shelter it replaced, built in 1935, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

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Wickwire Road, Cornwall, Connecticut, 06796

Coordinates: 41.91194, -73.32750

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