1929 Camp Claire CHC Summer Camp pocket patch Jayhawk Area Council
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Camp was located near Maple Hill, KS. A newspaper article I found indicated the property was at bend in Mill Creek near the mouth of Dry Creek. Looking at a map, the referenced location is just north of Exit 342 on I-70. The exit to the east is 343, which is Tod Ranch Road – apparently the Tod family owned property in that area. Topeka Daily Capital 21 June 1922. Floyd, scout executive, worked all afternoon getting out the order of the board to the scout patrols all over the city. The decision of the board to give equal opportunity to all the boy scouts in Topeka for the annual encampment is a rich reward for his efforts to improve scoutcraft in Topeka during the past year. When he came here there were about 200 boy scouts. Now there are over 500! Many new patrols have been organized. The new order will affect even the boys of the patrol organized at the Boys’ Idustrial school and one or more deserving boys from that patrol probably will get to go to the encampment. And what an encampment it will be! Tod, owner of the famous Bar-T ranch near Maple Hill, has thrown his ranch open to outsiders for the first time. Never before has he even allowed visitors to fish on his place without a special permit. Period Opens July 3. Thru the efforts of his son, James Tod of the state executive committee of the American Legion, Mr. Tod has consented to give the boys the finest natural camp site near Topeka. It is a twelve-acre tract in a bend of Mill creek at the mouth of Dry creek, with wonderful natural beauty and every facility to improve scoutcraft- It l said there is a greater variety of trees on this tract than anywhere else in the state. What a splendid place in Topeka. July 1 to 31 is for the fifty best first class boy scouts in Topeka.
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