Collecting Ten Mile River, one patch at a time
I had previously written about a 1970 Sanita Hills neckerchief, here is the matching Pocket Patch from that year. No items matching your keywords were found.
Family Camp also issued a patch for the the 2011 season. It is undated and uses a design familiar to GNYC Camp Patch collectors. The design was used for Henry Kaufmann Scout Camp on at least 2 of its patches. James West at Ten Mile River Boy Scout Camp Postcard US $3.95 Auction Ends: Sunday [...]
Here is another undated neckerchief from Sanita Hills Scout Camp. I think this is a bit later than the previous two I recently posted; probably from the late 1970′s to mid 1980′s. Can anyone accurately date this neckerchief? No items matching your keywords were found.
Another undated neckerchief from Sanita Hills Scout Camp. A light green neckerchief with a yellow, green and black design. I have also seen a neckerchief slide with the same design. I believe that this is a pre-1965 issue. Can anyone confirm when it was first available?
The Boys Scouts of Greater New York Councils took over Sanita Hills Camp, a 1100-acre resort for employees of the New York City Department of Sanitation in May 1956. The camp was used for many years including a stint as a separate summer camp during the late 1960′s and early 1970′s. It was later sold [...]
At Scouts’ Pouch Camp, summer will be in session despite black cloud. That’s the headline from a recent article in the Staten Island Advance on the ongoing story on Camp Pouch. The cash-strapped Greater New York Councils of the Boy Scouts of America continues to seek a solution for the camp, after announcing in 2009 [...]
According to the New York Times, “The former Edwin C. Hoyt Farm became today the newest Scout camp of the Greater New York Council of Boy Scouts of America–but forty acres of the 125 will be for conservation study only.”on May 4, 1957. Hoyt Farm was located in Commack, New York and was only used [...]
Many of the neckerchiefs and patches issued for Sanita Hills were undated, here is a dated neckerchief from 1970. This one is used, anyone have a mint example?
That was the title of the most recent article on Camp Pouch in the Staten Island Advance. Don’t expect the state to be Pouch Camp’s white knight.Tucked inside Gov. David Paterson’s preliminary budget released last week was a proposal to place an indefinite moratorium on state land buys. But the potential loss of the state [...]
Financial woes may force the sale of Camp Pouch, 140 acres where generations have learned to rough it.
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