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It was called "Depot Camp," because it stored supplies, and "McCaslin Brook Farm" because of the horse barn and fields. [5] The company operated the camp until 1929. [7] In 1949 the Holt Lumber Company gave the camp to the Oconto Historical Society. The McCaslin Lions Club stabilized and restored the bunk house and cook house in the 1970s. [7]
Rawhide was established in 1965 by John and Jan Gillespie, who purchased the 714-acre (2.89 km 2) plot along the Wolf River near New London in 1965. They opened the ranch and took in their first eight boys.
Camp Parker is available year-round for use by Scout groups and non-Scout youth groups. Featuring a medieval castle, dining lodge, several camp sites and cabins, a family camp, trading post, shower house, sandy beach, gun and archery ranges, and much more! Phillippo Scout Reservation: Northern Star Area Council: Near Cannon Falls, MN Active
In 1884 the Northern Wisconsin Lumber Company bought the land that would become Forest Lodge, and by 1888 the company had built a logging camp there, on the south side of a bay of Lake Namekagon. Soon the timber was cut and in 1889 Crawford Livingston and some hunters and fishermen from Chicago leased the land around the camp as a hunting retreat.
Gothic Revival-style church built 1848-1851 by Episcopal congregation - the oldest church in continuous use in Rock County and one of the oldest surviving stone Gothic churches in Wisconsin. 125: Stark-Clint House: Stark-Clint House: September 13, 1985 : Creek Rd.
Sunset Point is a historic vacation estate on Catfish Lake in Eagle River, Wisconsin.Chicago gambler Mont Tennes bought land for the estate in 1921, and after several years of planning architects Rudolph Nedved and Elizabeth Kimball designed it in 1927.
Chicago Tribune Ghost Towns Haunt Wisconsin As Lumbering Ends; Wisconsin Public Television - Lost Towns of Southern Wisconsin "Guide to the Ghost Towns of Wisconsin". website. Rootsweb. August 7, 2010 "Kenosha Co. WI Placenames". website. Rootsweb
The camp buildings dates to the 1920s when the modest resort was built and operated as a brothel and speakeasy. After many run-ins with the law, the madam, Annie Peck, was finally convicted of running "a bawdy house of ill fame", and sent to the women's prison in Taycheedah, WI in 1942. Her husband Gordon Peck was also convicted and served time.