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Lone Tree Scout Reservation
File:Lone Tree Scout Reservation.png
OwnerYankee Clipper Council
LocationKingston, New Hampshire
CountryUnited States
Founded1946
Camp RangerWil Dinsmore
Website
http://www.ltsf.org/
 Scouting portal

Lone Tree Scout Reservation is a Boy Scout camp in Kingston, New Hampshire on Country Pond. On September 10, 1946,[1] the reservation was purchased with the proceeds from a World War II Boy Scout paper drive and the sale of the former Camp Lone Tree in Deerfield, New Hampshire. The facility is a 125.1-acre (506,000 m2) [2] wooded and sparsely developed Boy Scout camp, by design. From 1946 to 1994 the camp served as a residential summer camp for Boy Scouts during the summer seasons and remains as a camping spot for Boy Scout troops during the off-season. Since 1994, LTSR has served as the Council's main Cub Scout camp and continues to serve as a camping destination for Scout troops from September to June.

The camp is owned and operated by the Yankee Clipper Council and functions primarily as a three-season Boy Scout camp due to the number of cold-weather campers it hosts each year. In the cooler seasons, three wood-stove- and fireplace-equipped cabins are made available for Scout units to use. Generally, the younger campers are the prime users of the wood-heated cabins until they become proficient in cold-weather camping skills. All other campsites are open for camping, for more experienced groups not needing cabins in the winter.

In this summer season, YCC will run camp programs for Cub Scouting at LTSR. From the first week of July to the last week of August, a variety of programs will be made available for area Cubs and Packs to participate. Beginning in its third year, a program named So-Kee-Tay (Stout Heart)[3] after the long-running Cub program at Wah-Tut-Ca Scout Reservation, is slated to increase in overall attendance. This progran is held at the beginning and the end of the season for Webelos(WEBELOS) Scouts who will be spending four nights in resident camp. Four additional weeks of Cub day camp will be held in between, including two Cub overnight weekends. Two innovative program areas are to be held: Rocks and Hawks which focuses on marksmanship and safety along with Showmanship for leading songs, cheers and skits. Programs for family camping, COW -Cub Overnight Weekend, have been added at the beginning and end of the Cub camp season at Lone Tree. The 2010 camp staff is now headed up by Mr. Jeffery Fehlmann, Camp Director. [4]

Lone Tree is open year-long to Boy Scout troops and Venturing crews who wish to camp or use the facility for training and education. The Yankee Clipper Council holds many training sessions, including Wood Badge, Order of the Arrow events and district camping events on site through out the year. Lone Tree is open to local community groups to reserve the camp for their events. The camp is staffed in the colder seasons with a volunteer Camp Master who resides in the Health Lodge during each weekend. The Camp Master oversees each camping group and assures that BSA policy is adhered to and that the camp is left better than found, in alignment with the "leave no trace" principle of Scouting. The part-time new Camp Ranger, Wil Dinsmore, lives year round in the Ranger's Quarters with his wife and twin babies. Wil, as the Scouts call him, takes care of the camp and is in camp most every weekend. The Property and Maintenance Committee, headed up by Mr. Daniel Ross, and assistant, Keith Miller works at least one Saturday per month. Longtime alumnus Dick Preble, who was there when camp opened in 1946, remains a permanent fixture at camp with Dick Healey. They are the men who have kept camp running. The Lone Tree Spirit Foundation, a benefactor of LTSR, works in concert with the Ranger and Property and Maintenance Committee to coordinate fund raising for special projects in camp.

Geography

The camp property forms a peninsula bound by water environments on three sides leading into Country Pond. The land juts into the lake from low areas formed on the northeast side by the inlet of Bartlett Brook and the southwest side of a Great Cedar Swamp. The cedar Swamp is a very rare and old growth of Atlantic White Cedar. This physical arrangement provides great security and privacy for the campers, owing to the marshes on either side that are impenetrable to foot traffic. The ground is exclusively gravel and sand throughout what the locals call a "hogback". This is a long mound of glacial till that forms the peninsula rising between lower draining areas. Over the years, this sandy gravel has made for easy digging as the camp faculty was developed.

On Lone Tree Road, the way into the camp, one can see that the surrounding land is shaded by mature white pines and red and white oaks, with swamp maples forming a high forest canopy. Passing the Ranger's house and through the camp gate, where the Totem poles stand as they always have, the road traveled by many campers is evident. As the road winds to the left, the Archery range field is visible to the right of the latrine and the trail to the BB Range. The road turns right, opening up to the first parking lot, just past the forest succession study and down across from the nature lodge. Proceeding through the gate, there is a nature study pond on the right and further on the left is the second parking lot, with the Scoutcraft Shelter and the new composting toilet. This is the back way into Fort Preble, the old Ticonderoga campsite. The fort is a large wood framed structure made to look like an early colonial stockade.

Proceeding past the second gravel parking lot and up hill, the main gateway to Fort Preble is on the left and the Hovey campsite and SACAWACAS cabin are passed on the right. Definition of the acronym: "Scouting And Camping Are Wonderful Activities Concerning All Seasons". (Fun fact: it is spelled the same forwards as it is backwards) Directly in front of SACAWACAS, is the Pine Tree troop site. These two sites are both equipped with latrines and the old Hovey site is a wilderness site with discontinued improvements. Passing the gateway to SACAWACAS, there is a shower and flush toilet facility up on the right. As one travels past the gravel embankments, formed by project 'Helpmate' a Navy Seabee road project, and down toward a fork in the road. The Handicrafts Cabin is on the left, prior to the fork.

Dead Center of the fork is the new kiosk that contains a new camp map, made by Brian LoBao, of The Key Foundation. In this kiosk is the 4 foot great seal of Lone Tree, a giant patch-like sign also donated by the Key Foundation. At the right fork, there is Scouter's Lodge with the maintenance garage underneath. Across the road, up the hill from the maintenance area, is the Pendill all faiths chapel which abuts the new sports facitity added in 2008. Proceeding further down the right fork, is the waterfront. Down at the sandy beach, there is the lifeguard tower, showers, assorted boats and very large aluminum floating docks. Bathers can buddy up and go swimming when supervised by a BSA approved lifeguard on duty. From the shower stand, a camper can proceed up the water bar stair trail to the parade field.

Passing the to the left of the new Lone Tree Sign and map at the fork, see the nurse's lodge on the left and proceed to the last gravel parking lot. From this lot, Scouter's lodge is to the right, Beattie Cabin is at one o clock and Carter Dining Hall is to the left. The picnic pavillion is to the immediate left by the nurse's lodge. Continuing under the DO YOUR BEST gateway, Pentucket Cabin and the Adirondack Shelters are on the left with the Parade Field straight ahead. At the Laraba Parade field, there is new grass and the entrance for the Earl D. Collins council ring is next to the gateway to Kiwanis Cabin. A new service project by Nanepashemet Lodge has rebuilt benches and repaired the stairs leading down to the ring. A new Gateway is to be rededicated to Earl D. Collins, Jr. later in the summer. Kevin Doherty, the Sachem of the service block has led this project in tandem with a similar project at WAH-TUT-CA Scout reservation, tying the two camps together through identical gateways.

From the Parade Field, the new shower house is next to the water bar stair trail to the Waterfront. Just past that trail, are the point cabins: Rich, Laing and No-Name. These are used for camp staff, off season camping and events. Laing Cabin is the original Vetter family camp building of the parcel.

History

Excerpted From the Annual Report of Lone Tree Council, 1948 Camp Property report[5]

"It gives me great pleasure to render a report of the standing of our camp property as of this date. We now have title to one of the finest camp sites in which consists of 100 acres (0.40 km2) more or less situated in the town of Kingston, New Hampshire, bordering on Country Pond. This site has every advantage to allow for expansion and can be developed, with proper planning, into one of the finest scout camps any council could desire. At present we have five permanent buildings with several open sleeping cabins as follows: 1st The Vetter Cottage and four sleeping cabins which came to us when purchase was made of their holdings of this property. 2nd We have constructed The Magee Lodge, size 30’ by 40’, which has a stone and brick fireplace, cement floor, fireproof roof and electric lights with a log cabin finish on the outside of the building. It is hoped to add two wings to this lodge in the near future when we are granted an additional grant from The Magee Fund. We have already received $1500 from said fund, which was a big help on constructing the Lodge. 3rd The Pentucket Lodge, Size 18’ by 25’, which is equipped with a stone and brick fireplace, electric lights , cement floor, with outside log cabin finish, and also a kitchen which is all set up for winter camping. With this Lodge, we have five Adirondack Shelters for sleeping. These buildings were mainly erected by funds received from several waste paper drives in Haverhill under the able direction of Chief Chase of the Haverhill Fire Department. 4th The Kiwanis Lodge, size 18’ by 25’, which has a stone and brick fireplace, electric lights, wooden floor, fireproof roof, and sets on cement pillars. This Lodge also has a kitchen set up for winter camping. Also, five Adirondack Sleeping cabins are tied in with this unit. This troop camp was erected by efforts of the Haverhill Kiwanis Club. 5th We have also constructed a new office headquarters near the public parking lot and a new latrine between the Pentucket and Kiwanis Lodges by volunteer help under the supervision of our Scout Executive George T. Laing and Field Scout Executive Nat Doten, who performed much of the labor. We now have two fine wells of drinking water on the grounds which have been put into operation. One of the wells now has an electric pump and should be able to care for our water supply for several years. The water from both wells has met a satisfactory test of the state of New Hampshire. We trust to have a pipe line running to all Lodges and taps installed where convenient for our Scouts to draw from in the near future. We are also well equipped with approved fire extinguishers in the Lodge buildings; also kitchen ranges, ice boxes, sleeping bunks, mattresses, pillows, etc. Our water front is also something we are very proud of and every mother’s son, who will use same, should be, as he receives his instructions in swimming and boating. At the present time we have six new row boats and five new canoes on the water front. We feel greatly indebted to our present Council Commissioner Ernest Lucas and Alexander Beattie and their helper who have made this important water front what it is today – one of the best. May I also request that you observe carefully our two handsome totem poles as you enter our camp property for the present condition of said poles. We are greatly indebted to Alexander Beattie for his painstaking efforts in restoring same in such workman like manner.

Camp Property Report continued. (P.2)

As a matter of record for those that will follow us in maintenance of this Scout Camp, I will say that the title to this property, purchased in the year of 1946 from Mary E. Vetter and Aaron Hoyt and William C. Cogswell, was checked and passed by Attorney Frank A. Batchelder of Exeter, New Hampshire and the deed was recorded at the Registry of Deeds in Exeter. See deeds held at the council office as to book numbers and page numbers as follows; 1059- 144, 1061-244, 1062-161. We also have a topographical plan of our camp property which we own as was surveyed in February 1947, scale 1’ to 100’, by engineer Clinton F. Goodwin of Haverhill, Massachusetts who has agreed to establish proper bounds as per plan at an early date as possible. We are carrying insurance on all completed property and equipment at the present time in stock companies. May I express my appreciation to everyone who has helped to develop our camp property to its present state as we find it today, and we will also welcome any constructive suggestions."

Respectfully submitted, George L. Briggs Camp Property Chairman

P.S. Affixed to this report you will please find a financial Statement of receipts and expenses to date.

  • Cash Receipts
  • Sale of old camp $4,811.88
  • Salvage Drives
  • Haverhill $13,693.94
  • Georgetown $50.06
  • Groveland $25.00
  • Merrimac $67.50
  • Newburyport $153.79
  • Magee Fund $1500.00
  • Haverhill Kiwanis $1450.00
  • Haverhill Rotary $1000.00
  • Aaron Hoyt $450.00
  • Misc. Income $15.03
  • Total $23,487.20
  • Expenditures
  • Land $10,000.00
  • General Development including
  • Survey, Waterfront equipment,
  • Artesian Well, Grading of
  • Activities Field. $5,318.18
  • Magee Lodge $3,582.02
  • Camp Pentucket $2,189.53
  • Camp Kiwanis $1,918.78
  • Camp Rotary $9.70
  • Camp Office $364.08
  • Total $23,382.29
  • Bank Balance $104.91

From interview of veteran LTSR camper, Richard Preble who camped at Lone Tree in 1946: "Just some comments or thoughts as I remember happenings as a boy in 1946, 47, 48. The Council had originally thought they would allow Troops to develop their own sites in the camp, but they very quickly realized that there would not be enough room for Troops to have their own sites. Bud (Elwood) Thornton of (Troop 7, Haverhill- People's Methodist Church in Bradford) very quickly picked the Sacawacas site and built a lodge that was up on posts. Alex Beattie and Ernie Lucas (Troop 12, Riverside) had selected Pine Tree as their site, but never developed anything there. Leslie Plumley of (Troop 1, West Newbury) selected Ticonderoga and built a cement block fixture there to store wood under and to cook on but never developed it further. I don't remember anything about a Camp Rotary anywhere in camp. I believe some of us Troops actually camped there before the actual signing of the deed because the word was out that the Council had bought the property."

Elm Tree totem

Officially the Lone Tree Scout Reservation and the Lone Tree Council Great Seal. The totem was styled after a prominent elm tree landmark on Lone Tree Hill, in Amesbury, Massachusetts. It was a navigational aid to colonial mariners sailing up the Merrimack River. When Interstate 495 was built, Lone Tree Hill was altered as part of the new highway. Amesbury Sports Park is now operating a sledding and tubing area on this hill, where gravel was taken for the interstate.[6] In contrast, the former Camp Lone Tree in Deerfield, New Hampshire used an (evergreen) fir [7] tree totem. The evergreen is especially significant to the colonial history of the Merrimack Valley area. It is plausible that this early camp adopted this as their symbol owing to the King's pine of the earlier territory.[8]

The legend of the Lone Tree Totem design is a mature spreading elm with the three trunks representing the three parts of the Scout Oath and the twelve branches representing the points of the Scout Law. Over the years of the camp in Kingston, several editions of camp patches were produced. It is believed that the first was issued for the fall Camporee of 1946 where the camp was being called "Lone Tree Camp Reservation" at the First Settler Camporee." This new name carried over to the first issue summer camp patch which was used again on the next summer and campaigned the fir tree totem of the old camp. In 1950, the elm tree totem appeared and was used in all of the camp patch designs until 2001.[9]

Regarding the council name:

"In the early Colonial Days before there were lighthouses, buoys and other proper markers to guide mariners safely into Newburyport Harbor, the first land-mark sighted by incoming craft was a lone elm tree standing on a hill in Amesbury Mass. By using that land-mark, all craft seeking safe port were guided through the treacherous entrance to the harbor. it was felt that in bringing Scouting to the boys, the Amesbury Rotary Club was seeking to do the same for the boys as the lone tree had done for so many sailors. Thus, Lone Tree Council. The Council emblem is therefore an elm tree with three main limbs from the main trunk -symbolizing the three points of the Scout Oath. There are twelve smaller branches from the main limbs of the tree symbolizing the twelve points of the Scout Law. I think you'll agree -a most fitting name and council emblem."

Lone Tree Council

Officially, BSA council number 749 survived 67 years, from 1926 to 1993. The former Boy Scout Council served area boys in northern Essex County, Massachusetts and southern Rockingham County of New Hampshire. Lone Tree Scout Reservation and the former Camp Lone Tree were built by the communities in this council. The former council is now a district of Yankee Clipper Council of Massachusetts and Southern New Hampshire. The Old Council was originally chartered for Haverhill and Amesbury in Massachusetts but later branched out into three distinct districts named for each region's local characteristics:

Powow was named for the Powwow River, flowing out of Country Pond and into the Merrimack River and winding through that district. Ould Newbury took the colonial name for the old territory of the townships of that district. Whittier District is named for John Greenleaf Whittier, who was born in Haverhill.

Passaquo Lodge

In the spring of 1959, Passaquo Lodge #539, of The Order of The Arrow, was formed for the Boy Scouts of Lone Tree Council. This society of honor campers was created to serve Lone Tree Scout Reservation, in Kingston, New Hampshire. Named after the American Indian[11], Passaquo, (with Saggahew), who were the co-signers of the deed to the land of Pentucket, now Haverhill, Massachusetts. Their marks were of the bow and arrow. An induction ceremony was conducted by Passaconaway Lodge from the Daniel Webster Council of New Hampshire, to help start the lodge. The totem of Passaquo is the cock pheasant, which the arrowmen later named Dexter. The totem can be found on every version of the pocket-flap patch (lodge flap) of the lodge and subsequent chapter. [1] The former Passaquo Lodge lives on after the merger of Lone Tree Council and is now a chapter of Nanepashemet Lodge #158, of Yankee Clipper Council.

In 1993, the lodge was absorbed as part of the Lone Tree Council merger into Yankee Clipper Council. Nanepashemet, YCC's O/A Lodge is a combination of all of the five merged lodges: Passaquo, Amiskwi, Shingebis, Pawtucket, and Winnepurkit. As a result of this merger, numerous traditions of preserving camp from season to season were blended, making Nanepashemet a grander lodge than the sum of the parts. Nanepashemet's current lodge flap contains the main totem of the codfish as well as the totems in the list of the combined lodges: Pheasant, Beaver, Loon, Thunderbird and Turtle. The YCC was formed from a merger of the Lone Tree Council, North Essex Council and North Bay Council in 1993. Greater Lowell Council chose to merge into Yankee Clipper in 2000. Greater Lowell formed the fifth spoke on the ship's wheel totem of the YCC council strip arm patch. Several of Passaquo Lodge's arrowmen have given rise to The Lone Tree Spirit Foundation, Inc., a benefactor of LTSR. The Order of the Arrow continues to be Scouting's National Honor Society.[12]

More on the merger: of Passaquo into Nanepashemet Lodge #158 Nanepashemet was founded in 1993 from the merger of Shingebis Lodge#490, Passaquo #539, and Amiskwi #505. In 2000, Wannalancit Lodge #451 then joined Nanepashemet Lodge, becoming the Pawtucket Chapter. Nanepashemet, translated as "New Moon", was the mighty American Indian[11] chief of the Aberginian (Massachusetts) Federation. It is worth noting that Winnepurkit was the Son of Nanepashemet. The codfish was chosen to represent the lifeblood of Massachusetts in particular, the Gloucester and Cape Cod regions. The time when codfish swim north is during a new moon. The Nanepashemet Lodge is part of the NE-1A section of the Order Of the Arrow. [13][14]

Passaquo

The sagamores Passaquo (Passa Quo), and Saggahew (Sagga Hue) were Pennacook Native Americans. They lived in a village called Pentucket(t) on the northern shore of the Merrimack River, where Haverhill is now located. The Pennacooks were noted to be one of the very peaceful tribes of that time. They, as peace agents of Sachem Passaconaway, put their marks of bow and arrow on the deed transferring the land of Pentucket to the English. Pentucket means "Place by the winding river". At that time, the top corner boundary of the area purchased was 12 miles (19 km) north of the Merrimack River, just west of Angle Pond in West Hampstead.[15] The original deed included the towns now known as Salem, Hampstead, Atkinson and Plaistow, parts of Londonderry and Chester in New Hampshire, along with Methuen, Bradford and Haverhill in Massachusetts. Before boundaries were established for the New Hampshire towns, the area was known as Timberlane.[16] This transaction occurred on November 16, 1642. The original deed can be seen at the Haverhill Historical Society, The Buttonwoods Museum. A marker is placed on Summer Street, in Haverhill, marking the spot of this transaction where the first meeting house stood. [17] [18] [19] [20] Downstream from Country Pond and Lone Tree Scout Reservation, the remains of a Native American dugout canoe were once found in the marsh of the Powwow River. This artifact can be viewed on the wall of the gift shop museum of America's Stonehenge (Mystery Hill), in North Salem, New Hampshire. The Powwow River flows through Amesbury, Massachusetts and joins the Merrimack downstream from the ancient village site of Pentucket in Haverhill. Passaquo is mentioned in John Greenleaf Whittier's poem, Haverhill, that was read at the 250th anniversary of the city, July 2, 1890.[21]

Camp Lone Tree

A 75-acre (300,000 m2) camp property was purchased on September 29, 1928 [22] by the newly formed Lone Tree Council. The old farm house was remodeled to be the council's first Boy Scout Camp building and dedicated on July 14, 1929 at 3:30 PM.[23] At present archives are being compiled about this early Boy Scout camp which was situated on the east and west sides of NH Route 107 in Deerfield, New Hampshire.[24] Route 107 crosses Freeses Pond, a small impoundment on the Lamprey River,[25] which was used on both sides of the road for waterfront activities such as boating and swimming. It is held that increased vehicle traffic after World War II made this dangerous for the Scouts to cross the road during camp activities and precluded a search for a new camp property. It has been said[who?] that the increased traffic post WWII made it necessary for the State of NH to widen the route, which may have led to the sale. Locals have also said that interest waned in the camp citing that the fresh water was a contributor to the spread of polio, the vaccine of which was only a decade away. More poignantly, WWII took many adult leaders away from camp as well as young camp staffers.

Article from Amesbury Daily News Monday July 15, 1929 -The last sentences read:

Tomorrow, Gordon "Chief" Williams will be at camp from Camp Chadwick, with about ten of his fellows to play our camp baseball team. A good time is looked for by most of the fellows as a lot of them attended this camp last summer before Lone Tree was ready.

According to the annual report of Lone Tree Council of December 31, 1942:

We were unable to use our former camp site in Deerfield, this year... we could best be served by the use of another council's site and facilities. Satisfactory arrangements were made with the North Essex Council to join them at Camp Onway this year.

-writes George T. Laing, Scout Executive.

While in transition due to the war and sale of the camp property in Deerfield, Scouts from Lone Tree joined the sessions at Camp Onway in 1941-47. The camp property was sold to a lumberman named Arthur Bailey on November 5, 1943.[26] Camp Seven was an even earlier camp from the Haverhill Troop 7 in the pre-Lone Tree Council era.

Several current and former Scoutmasters from the Lone Tree Council made a trip to the old camp and procured the original fir tree-shaped plywood sign from the owners of the house that still stands on the easterly side of Rt. 107N. The original house is now painted red with the attached barn that was used as a dining hall. In that barn stands a large fireplace and chimney, the mortar of which is embedded with pennies placed by Scouts at the conversion of the dining hall. There is evidence of a campcraft building made from an attached carriage shed on the hall. The old Infirmary, across from the dining hall was collapsed and destroyed by heavy snow. The original named screen house camping shelters, in the overgrown fields are long gone. Longtime scouters from the Lone Tree Council area hold postcards and patches from the camp. Some of the original memorabilia can be seen at W.E. Fuller and Co. Clothiers in Amesbury, Massachusetts.

Camp Seven

(Circa pre Lone Tree Council -1926) From a 1927 copy of a newspaper article about Camp Lone Tree, Camp Seven was held for at least three summers in an established summer camp at Wash Pond, (Sunset Lake) in Hampstead, NH. George T. Laing served for three seasons as the camp director of Camp Seven , the the Scout Camp conducted by Troop Seven of the Haverhill District. The camp was discontinued upon coming under council leadership in 1926. This interim camp ground is presumed to be the site of the present Camp Tel Noar, a camp founded in 1945 for Jewish youth.[27] The Article goes on to state that the camp committee, of which Mr. George L. Briggs of Amesbury is Chairman has secured a very fine staff for the supervision of the scouts this year.

George E. Nihan, of which Camp Nihan is named for, was an experienced leader of boys of the time and was also superintendent of the Boys Club of Lynn, MA and the former Scout Executive of the Lynn Council. He was selected as camp director for Camp Lone Tree in its first summer season of 1928. George was also involved with Camp Creighton in Middleton, MA and Camp Powwow in Amesbury, MA, the town where he resided. [2] [28]

Selected as Assistant Camp director in 1928, George T. Laing goes on to be camp director for Camp Lone Tree and more importantly, becomes an Executive of Lone Tree Council. A cabin at Lone Tree Scout Reservation is dedicated in his memory, the original Vetter family cottage. In 1949, George fell off a roof he was helping to construct in camp and later died from bone cancer which was exacerbated due to his injuries.

Carl L. Hilton (1895–1977) was the first Lone Tree Council Executive, who went on to serve as the Greater Lynn Area Council (North Bay) Executive until his retirement in 1960. In 1971, he was awarded the Silver Beaver, the highest award a council can bestow. In 1975, he was awarded the 65 year Veteran Scout Certificate. And in 1971, he was awarded the Greater Lowell Council's original and special Ringlet Award and was subsequently enrolled in the Ringlets of Scouters in the council. He became a resident of Chelmsford, MA in 1961 and served as a council member at large with the Greater Lowell Council assisting with the field of public relations. He remained lifelong friends with George E. Nihan until his death.

The Lone Tree Spirit Foundation

As expanded from the LTSF website and/or Articles of Agreement/ LTSF, with permission.[3]

On September 17, 2004 The Lone Tree Spirit Foundation, Inc. became a New Hampshire non-profit corporation. The first executive committee was elected at the Annual Meeting on October 2, 2004. As stated in its Articles of Agreement and By-Laws, the Lone Tree Spirit Foundation exists to be a benefactor to Lone Tree Scout Reservation, to preserve and promote the spirit, heritage and enrichment of Lone Tree, and to promote the brotherhood of scouting among the alumni of Lone Tree.

The mission of the Foundation is fivefold:

1) to be an alumni association for former LTSR campers, staff, Scouters, and Arrowmen;
2) to preserve the history and traditions of Lone Tree Scout Reservation;
3) to help fund projects at the camp that would otherwise not be funded;
4) to be an advocate for the camp; and,
5) to aid the overall Scouting mission in Yankee Clipper Council, BSA.

Dues are $10 annually. Membership in the foundation is not required in order to participate in the annual reunion or participate in other foundation events. The latest fund-raising drive was for a sports facility in line with the wishes of the Cub Camp Director. Previous improvements by the foundation were fireplace repair to all three cabins and the purchase of two paddle-boats and sports equipment for the Cub Scout program.

During the time prior to 2007, Lone Tree Scout Reservation was being threatened by a potential sale to the Mormon LDS Church. This period was exhausting to the members of LTSF. Several efforts were made by the members against the sale of LTSR and Camp Onway prior to the sale of Camp Onway. This included attending "fireside chats" put on by the YCC E-Board, sending letters and emails to the E-Board and general lobbying to all of the troops in the council. The LTSF is still recovering in morale since this time.[29][30]

Six camp reunions have been held since 2003. Recently, a veteran Scouter and camp cook, the late Pa (Robert) Duggan had the dining hall kitchen named for him in tribute to his long and cheerful service to the camp and O/A functions. After the YCC sale of sister Camp Onway in 2007, the group honored the memory of this once great camp, by placing the initials C O in the canopy of that year's reunion patch totem. This Group is made up of former Scoutmasters, campers, Arrowmen and camp staff from Lone Tree Scout Reservation. The Foundation seeks to compile it's archival information into a book at a future date.

References

  1. ^ Book 1059, Page 146 NH Rockingham County Deed
  2. ^ http://www.yccbsa.org/aboutus/properties/q&a_ltsr_0406.pdf
  3. ^ http://www.yccbsa.org/camps/ltovernightcamp.htm
  4. ^ Yankee Clipper Council Website http://www.yccbsa.org/districts/northessex/index.html
  5. ^ a b From the LTSF archives/Fuller collection
  6. ^ http://www.nelsap.org/ma/lonetree.html
  7. ^ LTSF/Red Randall/LTSR/camp patch&neckerchief description of 1979
  8. ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad_arrow
  9. ^ From the LTSF Archive/ Richard Becker notes
  10. ^ http://www.yccbsa.org/aboutus/whoweare.htm
  11. ^ a b http://www.scouting.org/Media/LOS.aspx
  12. ^ www.ltsf.org
  13. ^ http://www.oa158.net/
  14. ^ http://www.oa-bsa.org/
  15. ^ 1999 edition of History of Hampstead New Hampshire by Maurice I. Randall
  16. ^ http://www.pentucketbank.com/home/about.history
  17. ^ http://www.angelfire.com/ky3/caroln242/documents/haverhillpurchase.html
  18. ^ http://www.archive.org/stream/haverhillhistori00bart/haverhillhistori00bart_djvu.txt
  19. ^ http://www.haverhillhistory.org/
  20. ^ http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/algonquian/pennacookhist.htm
  21. ^ http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/8309/
  22. ^ Book 766, Page 413, NH Rockingham County Deed
  23. ^ Monday, July 15, 1929 Amesbury Daily News article/ LTSF Archive copy
  24. ^ http://www.ltsf.org/Archive/LoneTreeCamp.html
  25. ^ http://www.lampreyriver.org/Education%20&%20Outreach/video.htm
  26. ^ Book 1228, Page 151, NH Rockingham County Deed
  27. ^ http://www.camptelnoar.org/
  28. ^ http://www.jamesnihan.com/familynew.htm
  29. ^ http://www.savecamponway.com/Save%20Our%20Camps.html
  30. ^ http://www.saveourscoutcamps.org/
  • The Lone Tree Spirit Foundation Website www.ltsf.org

See also

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