I was walking through the guidance office in one of the schools I work in recently and a poster caught my eye. It read, "Season for Success - A Summer Boarding School in Wolfeboro" Since my curiosity was piqued, I checked out their
WEBSITE. Turns out I have some postcards of the place.
The Hill School Camp is now known as the
Wofeboro Camp School located on
RUST POND in South Wolfeboro. They offer a boarding school experience with an extensive array of
academic offerings....very impressive.
I can't find much about the history of the place. Can anyone help out?
from their website
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|  |  Since 1910 a summer on the shore of Rust Pond has meant a "Season for Success" for hundreds of young people. The earliest days of the site of the School can be traced to the year 1757. King George II of England granted Colonel Henry Rust of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, a 600-acre plot of land in Wolfeboro to encourage settlement. The Rust farm operated for 150 years until the Industrial Revolution transformed the New England economy from agriculture to manufacturing.
In 1910 a portion of the Rust farm was purchased by George Robins, a teacher from The Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, to establish a summer tutoring program. Thus began the eight-decade legacy of today's summer boarding school.
In 1977 the School was incorporated for non-profit and reorganized by a small group of people long associated with the School and committed to perpetuating The Wolfeboro Experience.
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This would actually be Rust Pond with Lake Wentworth(?) in the distance.
From the back of the postcard...
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Wolfeboro Camp School offers constructive scholastic work for girls and boys 12 to 18 in an atmosphere of healthy outdoor living. THE LODGE (pictured) stands on a rise of ground offering excellent views of the lake woodlands and neighboring mountains. Box 390 - 569-3451
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