Staff Photo
 
 
When the property across the Tenny River was acquired, the idea was to construct a “Senior Camp” on the land as a place for older Scouts to camp and train together.  Plans were drawn and the present set of buildings were constructed, including a Scoutmaster’s cabin,  recreation hall,  pump house for running water, latrine with flush toilets, and twelve two-boy Adirondack lean-tos. It must have been quite a feat to do all that in the middle of the Depression!

This site was the designated camp for boys aged 14 or more, who were assigned  their own provisional leaders and an “older boy” program.

This plan seems to have varied depending on the leadership available and the number of older campers.  Some years the site was made available for the growing number of troops coming to camp with their own leaders and in others it was again used as the site for older campers.

When the “Senior Camp” was built across the Tenny River the only access to it was by rowboat or by the Tenny River Road off route 85.  With a capacity of 24 scouts and several leaders, better access was needed so a ferry know as the "Tenny Belle" was established. 

In the late fifties Waterfront Director Don McLean was also assigned as Explorer advisor for the older boys in Tenny. They organized as an Explorer post, with leaders elected and programs planned by the boys.  One of their projects was cutting and blazing the Red Trail , which then led from the Tenny landing up the riverside to the property line ( a “Dutch wall” of earth) then inland to the road and on to the lake shore at the point of land beyond the Tenny site.

In the sixties, with increased troop camping, the need for a senior camp no longer existed so the site became available every week to troops coming to camp as a unit.
 


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One of the groups to attennd Senior Camp in 1949 was Sea Scout Ship 209A from Rockland, Maine.
Note: Many of the Scouts are wearing a Camp Hinds patch just below the "Sea Scouts, BSA" strip.

Tenny Rec Hall
Campfire Area
Leanto #7 & 8

Leanto #11
Leanto #4
Tenny Rec Hall - 2010
Princeton Latrine - now a staff cabin
Princeton Latrine - now a staff cabin
Tenny Rec Hall - 2010
Leanto #3
Tenny Rec Hall - 2008
Tenny Rec Hall - 2008
Leantos - 2008
Tenny Rec Hall - 2008
Scoutmaster's Cabin - now used as
a staff cabin - 2008
Tenny Belle
Cub Scouts near Scoutmaster's Cabin
1975
Tenny Rec Hall in the fall
mid 90's
Tenny Rec Hall in the winter
mid 90's




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