Mohican was once the hunting grounds of the Delaware nation and later became a place for outdoor recreation and conservation. In the 1930s, during the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Civilian Conservation Corps, which gave single men aged 18 to 25 work in public forests and parks in exchange for food, housing, pocket money, and useful skills. Camp Mohican, made up of Companies 1530 and 1570, was established in Loudonville to restore land that had eroded and to bring back the thick forests that once dominated the landscape. In 1949, when the Ohio Department of Natural Resources was created, part of Mohican State Forest was designated as a state park to preserve its beauty and provide recreation. Originally called Clear Fork State Park, it was renamed Mohican State Park in 1966. Mohican-Memorial State Forest is a multi-use forest supporting sustainable timber management, public hunting, biological diversity, watershed protection, and sound forest management, and together with Mohican State Park's 1,110 acres, the area totals 5,651 acres.