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Anyone wanting to understand how Giant City State Park in rural Makanda earned its name need only hike on the Giant City Nature Trail. Here they walk through the park's namesake rock formations, carved 20,000 years ago by the melting waters of a Pleistocene glacier that stopped a mere 1.5 miles from the park. Yet it wasn't until 1933 to 1941, when the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) operated its three work camps, that man blazed his most notable trail in the park's history. The CCC's work since then has been enjoyed by millions of park visitors to its stone picnic shelters, trails throughout the park, and the massive Giant City Lodge.

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Author Karen Sisulak Binder is a sixth-generation direct descendant of one of Makanda's founding families, the Thompsons, who were among the first landowners of what is now Giant City State Park. A newspaper journalist for more than 25 years, Binder has tapped local, state, and national sources to amass this unique historical collection.

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