Wells State Park on Green Bay in Michigan unites lakeshore recreation with a historic landscape rooted in the late nineteenth-century logging era. After Sam Crawford preserved a tract of virgin timber from a much larger purchase, John Walter Wells later acquired the land. Following Wells's death, his children donated acreage and shoreline to the state in 1925, and additional land helped form the park. Early development began in the late 1920s, but the park took much of its present character from Civilian Conservation Corps work starting in 1933, including reforestation, trails, and rustic buildings whose planned layout and materials still define the site.