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The original Camp Tom Wooten operated as a Boy Scout summer camp from 1934 until its sale in 1983. The new location operates as a camp for Cub Scouts. Camp Tonkawa: Texas Trails Council: Taylor County, TX: Active: Camp Wisdom: Circle Ten Council: Dallas, TX: Active: Camp Zach White: Yucca Council: Sold: Chisholm Trail High Adventure Base ...
Camp Wakenah was founded on Gardner Lake near Salem, Connecticut by the Pequot Council. The camp was sold in the 1930s to buy the second Camp Wakenah at a dif.ferent location on Gardner Lake which consisted of 34 acres (14 ha). The camp was last used as a summer camp in 1972, and was sold by the Connecticut Rivers Council in 2004.
Camp Topridge is an Adirondack Park Great Camp bought in 1920 and substantially expanded and renovated in 1923 by Marjorie Merriweather Post, founder of General Foods and the daughter of C. W. Post. The "camp", near Keese Mill, in the U.S. state of New York, was considered by Post to be a "rustic retreat"; it consisted of 68 buildings ...
The Borscht Belt, or Yiddish Alps, is a colloquial term for the mostly defunct summer resorts of the Catskill Mountains in parts of Sullivan and Ulster counties in the U.S. state of New York, straddling both Upstate New York and the northern edges of the New York metropolitan area. "In its heyday, as many as 500 resorts catered to guests of ...
Adirondack Woodcraft Summer Camps is a co-ed, sleep-away summer camp in the Adirondack mountains in Old Forge, New York. [1] [2] Also known as AWC or Woodcraft, the camp was founded in 1925 by William Abbott. [3] [4] Abbott, with the backing of investors, bought the property after coming across two small lakes while scouting the area for New ...
The Great Camps of the Adirondack Mountains [1] refers to the grandiose family compounds of cabins that were built in the latter half of the nineteenth century on lakes in the Adirondacks such as Spitfire Lake and Rainbow Lake. The camps were summer homes for the wealthy, where they could relax, host or attend parties, and enjoy the wilderness.
American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA) High School Summer Conservatory. Appel Farm Arts Camp, New Jersey. Aspen Music Festival and School. Camp Belvoir Terrace for Girls, Massachusetts. Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp. Bowdoin International Music Festival. Buck's Rock Performing and Creative Arts Camp.
Camp Cody in Freedom, New Hampshire, is a traditional, overnight, international, and co-ed summer camp, located along the shore of Ossipee Lake. Established in 1926 by Philip Axman in Cambridge, Maryland, [1] Camp Cody began as a camp for boys, named after William "Buffalo Bill" Cody. It moved to its current site of Freedom, New Hampshire in ...