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Tuftonboro, New Hampshire
Established: 1903
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Originating in the late 1800s, summer camp is
one of America's enduring gifts to the world and
an ongoing boon to the thousands of boys and girls
who attend camps in the United States each year.
Though not the oldest camp in the land, YMCA Camp
Belknap in Tuftonboro, New Hampshire, now joins
a small, elite group whose legacy spans one hundred
years or more.
Established in 1903, back in the days of ice houses
and horse-drawn carriages, Camp Belknap today
flourishes on the shore of New Hampshire's majestic
Lake Winnipesaukee, not only because the concept
of summer camp remains evergreen, but because
its founders and succeeding generations of directors
and leaders have created and continually improved
on something special – a felicitous blend
of place, tradition, and purpose. The aim, from
early on, was to make good boys better. Camp Belknap
has done that exceptionally well.
Camp Belknap prides itself on its home-grown leadership
program and its motto of "God first, the
other fellow second, and myself last."
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