Camp McKenzie-HCC-Harris Co
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N 32° 37.017 W 084° 58.957
16S E 689282 N 3610619
Whitesville Rd. just South of Pleasant Valley Drive
Waymark Code: WM6V3A
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 07/21/2009
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THIS IS A TWO SIDED MARKER
SIDE ONE
On this site was Camp McKenzie, a 350 acre tract used for approximately 75 years as the official campsite for the local councils of the Boy Scouts of America. Under the leadership of W. W. McKenzie and Fred H. Schomburg, together with J. Homer Dimon, Jas. B. Key, Dan Joseph, J. Dupont Kirven, H. B. Crowell and J. A. Thomas, Camp McKenzie was incorporated in March 1921, Through the efforts of Frank G. Lumpkin Sr., Sidney Colquitt and many others, funds were raised to purchase the acreage and construct facilities.
SIDE TWO
In 1965 a group led by Cason J. Callaway, Jr., donated an additional and adjacent 320-acre tract to the Chattahoochee Council. The new area was named Camp Callaway. In 1955, the Council signed an agreement with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for 900 acres of land on the West Point Lake and camping facilities have been moved to that location. This marker is erected to honor those men who had the foresight and the will to make Camp McKenzie and Camp Callaway possible for the thousands of boys who learned to love them both and who will forever hold fond memories of their experiences here.
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: HCC
Date: 1999
Sponsor: Ole Scouts of Camp McKenzie and the Historic Chattahoochee Commission
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