Percy Quin State Park is a public recreation area located off Interstate 55, approximately 7 miles (11 km) southwest of McComb, Mississippi. The state park surrounds 490-acre (200 ha) Lake Tangipahoa, an impoundment of the Tangipahoa River.[2]
Percy Quin State Park | |
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Percy Quin State Park Location in Mississippi | |
Location | Pike County, Mississippi, United States |
Coordinates | 31°11′31″N 90°34′02″W / 31.191926°N 90.5671272°W[1] |
Elevation | 328 ft (100 m) |
Established | 1935 |
Administered by | Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks |
Designation | Mississippi state park |
Named for | U.S. Representative Percy Quin |
Website | Official website |
The park is one of the nine original state parks built in Mississippi by the Civilian Conservation Corps.[3] Work on the park began in 1935, with the construction of the dam that created Lake Tangipahoa initiated in 1936.[4] The park was named after Mississippi politician Percy Quin.
The park features boating, waterskiing, and fishing, a conference center, primitive and developed campsites, cabins, villas, and lodge, a 4-mile (6.4 km) nature trail, a picnic area, and an 18-hole golf course, Quail Hollow.[2]
By July, 1935, a total of nine new parks were under construction. These nine were Leroy Percy in Washington County; Tombigbee in Lee County; Clarkco in Clarke County; Legion in Winston County; Tishomingo in Tishomingo County; Holmes County; Roosevelt in Scott County; Spring Lake (later re-named Wall Doxey) in Marshall County; and Percy Quin in Pike County.