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The first of two Linwood Hayne Scout camps in Augusta was in an area surrounded by what is now Boy Scout Road. It opened for its first season in the summer of 1926, and remained there for 20 years before the campground was sold in the mid-1940s and moved to a site 12 miles south of Augusta on Georgia Highway 56.
The first state park in Indiana was McCormick's Creek State Park, in Owen County in 1916, followed in the same year by Turkey Run State Park in Parke County. The number of state parks rose steadily in the 1920s, mostly by donations of land from local authorities to the state government. Of the initial twelve parks, only Muscatatuck State Park ...
Originally named Camp Chank-Tun-Un-Gi, 130 acres (53 ha) Camp Belzer was founded in 1918 by the Central Indiana Boy Scout Council. Located near Indianapolis , Indiana. It was named after local philanthropist and the creator of the Firecrafter organization, Francis O. Belzer ("The Chief").
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The council offices were eventually consolidated to a single office in Kokomo, Indiana. The council maintains two camps: Camp Cary, (near Lafayette, IN) used as a Cub Scout day camp and Camp Buffalo, (near Buffalo, IN - north and east of Indiana Beach) used as a Scouts BSA summer camp. The camp properties of Green Hills and Crossland were sold.
Deam Lake State Recreation Area; Ferdinand State Forest - 7,789.9 acres (10 km 2) Frances Slocum State Forest; Greene–Sullivan State Forest – 9,048.8 acres (1.3 km 2); Athens County; Harrison–Crawford State Forest – 24,322.7 acres (5 km 2) Jackson–Washington State Forest - 18,416.2 acres (38 km 2) Martin State Forest - 7,863.6 acres ...
The newly formed Boy Scout Council, the George Rogers Clark Council (formed by Scouts of Clark, Floyd, Harrison, Scott, and Washington counties) was seeking an area for a camp. In 1917 local Troop 3 had used the Work property as a summer camp, and used it for three straight summers. On April 2, 1928, Murphy sold the property to the Scouts.