Howard H. Cherry Scout Reservation.
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N 42° 11.339 W 091° 27.501
15T E 627298 N 4671909
The camp(s), Camp Waubeek and Camp Wakonda make up the Howard H. Cherry Scout Reservation.
The camp's are private property. You only nead to go to the gate and get a photo of you or your GPSr with the camp sign.
Waymark Code: WM80N3
Location: Iowa, United States
Date Posted: 01/04/2010
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This is some information on how the camp's got started:
The Howard H. Cherry Scout Reservation (HHCSR) began in 1930 when the Council's lease expired on Camp Mishawaka at Stone City, Iowa. At that time Howard H. Cherry contributed $1000.00 for the purchase of eighteen acres of land along the Wapsipinicon River one mile North of the town of Waubeek, Iowa. Camp Waubeek opened in 1931 due to the efforts of the Cedar Rapids American Legion's Hanford Post # 5. In October 1930 78 men from the Post cleared three acres of brush and small trees for temporary roads and the dining hall they would build the following spring. That winter the Legion wrote, produced and starred in a play that raised $1500.00 for the materials and equipment to put up the building. In April and May of 1931, 200 Legionnaires spent 792 man days of work constructing the 40 foot by 60 foot dining hall known as Hanford Lodge and clearing nature trails. The Legion members had even made the tables, hung screens and shutters, and built a fireplace with native stone from the Waubeek Quarry and the hearth from a millstone of an old flour mill. Mr. Cherry also donated an old family log cabin which the Legionnaires dismantled and moved from Sodtown to camp and reassembled. This became the first administration building and camp store.
Visit Instructions:
As of 1/26/06 you will need to post a photo of the camp gateway that also shows you and/or your GPS. If the photo is not posted, your log will be deleted.
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