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Rattlesnake Gal Senior Member Registered: November 2003 Location: Central NH Posts: 5,252	Camp Ossipee diving platform. There were 218 camps in the state by 1950, housing 23,000 young people and 3,000 counselors. Camp Chocorua, the first boy's camp, was organized on Squam Lake in 1881 and the first girls's camp on New Found Lake in 1900. NH was the birthplace of the organized camp movement.
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mcdude

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Registered: July 2002
Location: Rock Haven Lake - West Newfield, ME
Posts: 5,361

Thu June 10, 2004 10:39pm

....a diving platform....that's pretty cool. I haven't seen one of those lately while meandering around the lake. I wonder how often those from the boy's camps snuck over to the girl's camp???? :-P

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ApS

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Registered: January 2005
Location: Florida (Sebring & Keys), Wolfeboro
Posts: 5,788

Tue March 23, 2010 9:01am

At 1¼-century-plus years in age, Camp Ossipee is sized at about 30 acres and still located at Wolfeboro Neck's Ayers Point. Welch Island is in the distance. This LWHS interview gives the appropriate, as-the-crow-flies, mileage:

"...within a few minutes the flying boat, at 6:25 o‘clock, is headed for Camp Wyanoke...There are 250 boys at the camp and at every appearance of “Bob” Fogg he is greeted with cheers, for his coming means mail from home. The next stop, at Camp Ossipee, two miles away..."

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