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America's Oldest Boy Scout Camps
A listing & brief history of the oldest surviving BSA camps in the USA 1910-1919.
America's Oldest Boy Scout Camps
Revised article on the ScoutCamp.org web site. David L. Eby explores many BSA camp claims on which is the oldest.
US Boy Scout Camp Postcards
Here is a sampling of Boy Scout Camp postcards from the United States. They show period camp buildings, uniforms and activites. Information is from SOSSI.
CA - Camp Dimond O - History & Staff
History, photos, memorium to the beloved camp that was operated by the San Francisco Bay Area Council.
CA - Camp Kern
A History of Southern Sierra Council camps with photos of both Camp Kern and Camp Mirimichi.
CA - Holcomb Valley Scout Reservation
Holcomb Valley Scout Reservation is located on the site of the old Hitchcock Ranch of Holcomb Valley. Rich in the history of the colorful and often violent gold rush days of 1855 - 1865, the valley was discovered by Bill Holcomb hunting bear in 1859.
CO - Spanish Peaks Scout Ranch History
This site gives the history for the council & the camp, including the struggle to establish this 200 acre camp.
FL - Florida Sea Base History
This site tells the history of BSA's newest High Adventure Base. In 1975 a handful of volunteers from Miami, Florida and Atlanta, Georgia got together to develop a high adventure program using the waters in & around the Florida Keys as their foundation.
KS - Camp Naish History
Read brief history of the. Compiled by Ed Hubert, you can see staff rosters & biographies, and how the camp has prospered, even with the influence of the Tribe of Mic-o-sey at the council's other camp in Missouri.
MD - Broad Creek Memorial Scout Res.
Broad Creek Memorial Scout Reservation (BCMSR) in 1998 is the 6th largest largely undeveloped block of land in the Baltimore metropolitan area. Over 50 years old this site gives the detailed history of the camp.
MI - Camp Kanesatake History
In 1926 the Council purchased 27 acres of land for $5,000.00 on the North shore of Washington Lake which included the old smoke tower, buried in its center. The name Kanesatake was chosen because it was an Indian term which meant "Camp on a Hill."
MI - Northwoods Scout Reservation
This former camp was manly closed in 1979 and finally sold off in 1986. Site has history, patches, lists of former staff members, and other details.
MN - Many Point Scout Camp History Ctr
According to Many Point Camp Director Bob Gagner, the new Many Point History Center is one of only TWO history centers present at any Scout Camp in the United States! The other is - PHILMONT!
MO - Camp Osceola (H. Roe Bartle S.R.)
This site displays many of the the camp patches and other memorabilia from Camp Osceola (now the H. Roe Bartle Scout Reservation) in Iconium, Missouri - as well as the patches that have been issued by the Kansas City Tribe of Mic-O-Say.
NJ - History of Schiff Scout Reservation
Provides a history of the first Boy Scouts of America Traning facility. Provides a history form its begining in the 1930s to its closing in the late 1970s.
NY - Western New York Scout Camps
This website contains an outline of camp history for Western New York Scout camps.
NY - Camp 12 Pines
The old Oswego County Council operated this camp from 1928-1977.
NY - Camp Eatonbrook
This site chronicles a now closed scout camp from the Madison County Council in Oneida NY.
NY - Camp Loyalty
Camp Loyalty on Crooked Lake, at the foot of Tully Mountain, near Tully, New York (3 miles) was used as a Scout Camp by Scouts from Syracuse from 1913-1929.
NY - Camp Onondaga
In 1927, 1928 and 1929 Camp Onondaga operated on the island in Crooked Lake. This camp in Tully NY was operated by the Onondaga Council.
NY - Camp Portaferry History
Originally part of the great McComb's Purchase, many relics have been found, the most recent being two dugout canoes. In 1983, a consolidation between the Jefferson-Lewis and Saint Lawrence Councils was completed. Camp Vigor-of-the-Woods was sold.
NY - Camp Syracuse
This is a camp that ran from 1923 - 1939 by the Onondaga-Cortland Council. It was in the Adirondack Mountains on Seventh Lake and Brown's Tract.
NY - Camp Wauwepex
This page is made of the personal recollections and historical facts of this camp as presented by Bill Cotter. This camp is now known as the Schiff Scout Reservation.
NY - Indian Village Camp
In 1928 and 1929 an Indian Village was set up on the north side of the swamp along Crooked Lake. Operated by the Onondaga Council.
NY - Kamp Kamargo
Operated by the Jefferson-Lewis Council from 1921 to 1946, the old camp was located at Lake Bonaparte in Harrisville NY.
NY - Massawepie Scout Camps History
This site contains information on the history of the Massawepie Scout Reservation in New York's Adirondack Mountains and the previous Hotel Childwold.
NY - Nine Mile Island Camp
The history of Nine Mile Island Camp, Inc. as we know it today started with three North Tonawanda Boy Scout Troops back in the 1950's. This history is still being edited by Rick Seymour but already is among the most extensive we link to.
NY - Onteora Scout Reservation
Onteora is one of two camps owned by the Theodore Roosevelt Council, formerly Nassau County Council, of Long Island. The Council had closed Onteora a few years ago, the victim of declining Scout enrollment.
NY - Ram's Gulch
Ram's Gulch short term camp was probably patterned after Toad Hollow, a cabin camp near Buffalo, conceived by Conrad Meinecke, Buffalo Scout Executive, It is a defunct camp of the Onondaga Council that operated from 1919 - 1970.
NY Camp Russell Staff Alumni Association
Official website of the Camp Russell Staff Alumni Association - Woodgate, NY
OH - Camp Hook
Originally opened in 1926 as a scout camp it was one of Greenbar Bills Favorite camps. Once operated by Dan Beard Council, all activities at Camp Hook have been canceled and the camp is no longer available to Scouts as of the beginning of 1997.
OH - Camp Miakonda
It's facilities were incredible and unmatched. World's longest swimming pool (480 feet), 8 treehouse campsite, flagpole was the main mast off a Great Lakes freighter with a crows nest. This camp was a part of the Toledo Area (Now Erie Shores) Council.
PA - Camps of the old Mid-Valley Council
This is a listing of the camp properties in Northeast Pennsylvania from the 1930's & 1940's. Camps included: Camp Walum Olum 1932 - 1935, Camp Van Dyke 1936 - 1941, Fox Pond Scout Camp 1943, & Camp Edward 1944 - 1985..
PA - Goose Pond Scout Res. History
This text is taken in large part from "A Brief History of Goose Pond Scout Reservation 1920-1995" but it is updated into the year 2000. Overall a very well researched site.
PA - History of Hidden Valley Scout Camp
This page by Dick Denison details some of the history of this scout camp operated by the Keystone Area Council.
TX - History of Camp Billy Gibbons
Camp Billy Gibbons is located on Brady Creek south of Richland Springs, TX and is one of the older camps in this area. The camp belongs to the Texas Trails Council, BSA.
TX - West TX Scout Camps Past & Present
Frank T. Hilton has assembled a massive review of all of the Scout Camps, past & present for Western Texas which covers the present day councils of Texas Trails, Concho Valley, & Buffalo Trail Councils.
TX - Worth Ranch Patches History
Scouting uses patches as means to recognize attendance, participation or accomplishments. Patches have been used at Worth Ranch for all of the above reasons. While most of the original central buildings were constructed in 1930.
WA - The Boys of Summer - Camp Parsons
The Boys of Summer is a major historical review of this camp & the 80 summers that scouts have camped there from 1918 to 1998. Rev. Michael Bruce Johnson details the history of this outstanding camp.
WI - Akela's World Cub Scout Adventure
Akela's World Cub Scout Adventure Camp opened for campers in the summer of 1993. Since then camp has seen tremendous growth, becoming the #1 Cub Scout Resident Camp in the nation for 2001, 2002, 2003!
WI - Region 7/ North WI Nat'l Canoe Base
Covers history, staff, patches, and memories of this former High Adventure Base
CANADA - Haliburton Scout Reserve
At the close of World War II, the Toronto Scout District (eventually to become the Greater Toronto Council) asked their Camping Committee to find a suitable location for a rugged area of land available for a Scout Camp near Toronto.
EUROPE - Bayern High High Adventure Camp
This is a Scout Camp Discussion Group for staff and campers of this Trans-Atlantic Council Scout Camp.
UNITED KINGDOM - Gilwell Park History
This site has several sections including: Milestones of Gilwell - Significant dates in the history of Gilwell Park, since 1919 when it became the property of the Scout Association; 10 facts about Gilwell that you may not know; & a neat magazine story.
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