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Staten Island, NY: Active: Camp Purchas: Camp Russell: Revolutionary Trails Council: Woodgate, NY: Sold: Camp Sam Wood: Iroquois Trail Council: Pike, NY: Active: Cub Scout Camp Camp Saratoga: Saratoga Springs, NY: Closed: sold in 2001 by Twin Rivers Council It is now the Wilton Wildlife Preserve & Park. Approximately 25 acres of the 310-acre ...
In 1916 Ray K. Phillips established the Cedar Island Camp for girls on Fourth Lake, near Inlet, New York.In 1920 the Cedar Island Corporation, of which she was a member, purchased the Antlers Hotel on Raquette Lake and she moved the girls' camp to the Antlers property, changing the name to Raquette Lake Girls Camp.
Brown Tract Pond Campground is a campground run by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation [2] in Raquette Lake, New York.It is located on the shores of Browns Tract Pond [3] in a remote area of the Adirondacks, [4] approximately two miles (3.2 km) from Raquette Lake, near the town of Inlet in Hamilton County.
Raquette Lake served as a midpoint to other Gilded Age retreats such as the Great Camps Sagamore (1897; now a National Historic Landmark), Camp Uncas (1890; became a National Historic Landmark in fall 2008), and Kamp Kill Kare (1896) on nearby lakes Sagamore, Mohegan, and Kora, respectively. Sagamore is open to the public for guided tours ...
Camp Pine Knot, also known as Huntington Memorial Camp, on Raquette Lake in the Adirondack Mountains of New York State, was built by William West Durant. Begun in 1877, it was the first of the "Adirondack Great Camps" and epitomizes the "Great Camp" architectural style. Elements of that style include log and native stonework construction ...
It is one of the original Great Camps of the Adirondacks located on Raquette Lake the home to many summer camps of the wealthy built during the Gilded Age. North Point was designed by Spokane, Washington architect, Kirtland Cutter , for Lucy C. Carnegie, Andrew Carnegie 's sister-in-law and matriarch of the Carnegie family.
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The main lodge, most of the buildings and 105 acres (42 ha) were offered for sale, while the remaining acreage became part of the Adirondack Forest Preserve. Roger Jakubowski purchased the camp in 1985 for $911,000. [4] It is now owned by Texas real estate magnate Harlan Crow, who purchased it in 1994 when Jakubowski went bankrupt. [5]