Iconic summer camps around Jacksonville

Publication

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Jacksonville History Center

Name/Title

Iconic summer camps around Jacksonville

Entry/Object ID

Library.1976

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Library records not in public view

Description

156 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Iconic summer camps around Jacksonville by Dorothy Fletcher This book will provide the history of numerous camps, but certainly not all of them. Some seem to exist only in memory, but the ones I write about had either well-documented histories or innumerable people who had memories to share...Introduction. Contents: Camp Blanding -- Camp Chowenwaw -- Camp Echockotee (and Camp Francis Johnson/Camp Shands) -- Camping culture: gear -- Gold Head Branch State Park (later called Mike Roess Gold Head Branch State Park) -- Camp Immokalee -- Camp Keystone -- Camping culture : food -- Camp Montgomery -- Camp Seminole -- Camp Tomahawk -- .Camping culture: fireside tales -- Camp Weed -- Camp Wil-Le-Ma and others -- Music, drama, art and more -- Bits and pieces and baby jellies -- Camping culture : songs -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- About the author. Selected photos include: Soldiers at Camp Blanding, 1942 -- Museum at Camp Blanding, 2020 -- Camp Chowenwaw Museum, 2020 -- Camp Chowenwawn 's Big Cabin, 2020's -- View of Doctor's Lake from Ashley Lodge, 2020 -- Campers at Camp Echockotee, 1940 -- Totem pole of Camp Immokalee with Cal Thomas and other staff, 1959 -- Reverend Montgomery photograph -- Campers from Lakewood Presbyterian Church assembling for a hike at Camp Montgomery, 1966 -- Grave marker of Eddie Dammers Low at Camp Montgomery, 2020, died 1877 -- Camp Weed at its Beacon Beach location around 1938.

Collection

Library

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Camps -- Florida -- Jacksonville., Camp Blanding (Fla.) -- History.

Publication Details

Author

Fletcher, Dorothy K.

Publisher

History Press

Place Published

* Untyped Place Published

Charleston, SC

Call No.

GV 191.42 .F6 F55 2021

ISBN

9781467148214

LCCN

2021937213