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Operated as a Scout camp for African-Americans in the days of segregation; closed sometime between 1957 and 1967. Camp Salmen: New Orleans Area Council Slidell, LA Closed Operated as a Scout camp on Bayou Liberty between 1924 and 1983 on 106 acres. Camp T.L. James: Louisiana Purchase Council: Downsville, LA: Active: Camp Thistlethwaite ...
1 List of defunct local councils of the Boy Scouts of America. 2 See also. 3 Notes. ... Illinois: 1927: 1929: Decatur Area 121 740: ... Pioneer Trails 500 313: Butte ...
The Ma-Ka-Ja-Wan Scout Reservation is located in northern Wisconsin and serves the Scouts of the Northeast Illinois Council based in Vernon Hills, Illinois. Originally a logging camp, the scouts purchased the land and first had campers in 1929. The 1,560 acres (6 km 2) camp serves over 2,300 scouts each
Back when it was Camp Steiner, it was the highest-elevation Boy Scout camp in the country at 10,400 feet, and campers had to hike a mile to get into the camp. The camp's buildings date back to the ...
Harry "Babe" Woodyard State Natural Area is an Illinois state park on 1,104 acres (447 ha) in Vermilion County, Illinois, United States.. Part of this area used to be owned by Piankeshaw Council, Boy Scouts of America (BSA) a former part of Prairielands Council BSA, after those councils merged in 1992.
The Scout was produced in Fort Wayne, Ind., by International Harvester from 1960 to 1980 in multiple guises spread across two generations, known as I and II. It is among the quirkiest of the ...
Ingersoll Scout Reservation (ISR, or simply Ingersoll) is the primary resident camp of the W.D. Boyce Council of the Boy Scouts of America.Initially founded as Wilderness Camp in 1963, the camp was renamed in 1973 to posthumously honor William P. Ingersoll, a local philanthropist who helped in the camp's initial purchase.
The camp was founded in 1932 and is named for Robert J. Drake, Champaign-Urbana Council's Scout executive, who oversaw the purchase of the property but died of scarlet fever in 1929 before the camp was opened. Robert Drake is buried with his parents outside of Chicago, Illinois [1] The camp opened for the inaugural camping season on June 13, 1932.