Contributed by Penobscot Marine Museum
Description
These girls, wearing their Sunday camp uniforms, pose at Camp Tanglewood on a summer day in the 1940s. They were attending the summer camp that the Bangor-Brewer YWCA ran from 1939 to 1972.
During two-week sessions, the campers, who came from all around Maine, enjoyed nature study, arts and crafts, swimming in the pond, and exploring along the Ducktrap River and beach on Penobscot Bay.
In the 1970s the camp was used by the Bancroft School for emotionally disturbed children and then by the YACC (Young Adult Conservation Corps), which modernized the camp buildings. Starting in 1982 the University of Maine has run a 4-H camp at Tanglewood.
The stone steps the girls are sitting on are a legacy of the Civilian Conservation Corps, which built the camp between 1935 and 1939. The National Park Service worked with Maine Parks to develop a park on 1,500 acres in Camden.
The CCC constructed 48 buildings, including cabins, on the Tanglewood property; the entrance gate, tollhouse, picnic shelters, ski lodge, and other structures in Camden Hills State Park; and trails, roads, steps, and footbridges. They also planted 7,000 native trees.
The cabins and other buildings at Camp Tanglewood, 46 of which survive, were intended to lodge vacationers but were never used for that purpose.
About This Item
- Title: Camp Tanglewood, Lincolnville, ca. 1945
- Creator: Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company
- Creation Date: circa 1945
- Subject Date: circa 1945
- Location: Lincolnville, Waldo County, ME
- Media: Glass Negative
- Dimensions: 12.75 cm x 17.75 cm
- Local Code: LB2007.1.101222
- Collection: Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Co.
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company
- Girls--Maine--Lincolnville
- Children--Maine--Lincolnville
- Camps--Maine--Lincolnville
- Postcards--Maine
- Photographs--Maine--Lincolnville
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