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Girl Scouts of Greater New York serves some 25,000 girls and has over 8,700 volunteers in New York City. The council camp is 353-acre (1.43 km 2 ) Camp Henry Kaufmann in Holmes, NY. Girl Scouts Heart of the Hudson
Henderson Scout Reservation: Henry Kaufmann Scout Camp: Indian Village Camp: Kamp Kamargo: Lake George Island Camp: Massawepie Scout Camps: Seneca Waterways Council: Piercefield, NY: Active: Boy Scout camp in the Andirondack Region. It first opened in 1952. Massawepie Trails: North Star Canoe Base: Northern Lights Scout Camp: Onteora Scout ...
Edith Macy was the chair of the Girl Scout National Board of Directors from 1919 to 1925 and dreamed of a permanent Girl Scout training center. In 1925, V. Everit Macy donated land to be used as a national training school in memory of his wife, who had died on February 1 that year.
The first camp was named Camp Manitou and opened in 1936 in Central Valley, New York. It offered a two-week vacation for over 100 girls of the age 8 to 13. The name of the organization changed to Girls Quest in July 2005 to better reflect the approach to the development of young women and girls.
Established in the Berkshire Mountains in 1919 by the Springfield Girl Scout Council, the 200 acres (81 ha) Camp Bonnie Brae is today, the oldest continuously operated camp of the GSUSA. It is located on the northeast shore of Big Pond in East Otis, Massachusetts. [11] It is currently operated by the Girl Scouts of Central and Western ...
Ten Mile River Scout Camps (TMR) is a 12,000-acre (4,856 ha) - roughly the size of Manhattan - camp near Narrowsburg, New York, has four miles of frontage on the Delaware River, and is owned and operated by the Greater New York Councils of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) since 1927. It is the principal Boy Scout camp serving New York City.
Camp Collins was a 99-acre Scout Camp located near Oscawana Rd in Putnam Valley, New York, owned by Yonkers Council. It opened prior to 1935 [ 2 ] and continued in operation until 1952. In April 1953 [ 3 ] it was announced that Camp Collins would close and Yonkers Council would begin sharing space at Camp Bullowa in Stony Point across the ...
In 1929, the Girl Scouts of the USA purchased approximately 150 acres (0.61 km 2) of land bordering Lake Ontario, where they subsequently built Camp Beechwood.The park was used by the Girl Scouts and other youth organizations for camping and outdoor activities until financial pressures forced the camp's closure in the late 1990s.