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3 unusual facts about Camp Fire


Camp El Tesoro

It is one of the oldest camps still in operation in North Texas and the only Camp Fire camp in Texas.

Helen Herz Cohen

Camp Walden was founded in 1916, shortly after the first Girl Scout camp and Camp Fire Girls camps began, at the very end of the Progressive Era in the United States.

Luther Halsey Gulick, Sr.

Their son Luther Halsey Gulick Jr. (1865–1918) was a physician who founded Camp Fire Girls and supervised the invention of basketball.



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Elsie J. Oxenham

Oxenham was a Camp Fire Guardian when she lived in Ealing, but the attempt to form a group in Sussex failed.

Tea in Australia

Boiling water for tea over a camp fire and adding a gum leaf for flavouring remains an iconic traditional Australian method for preparing tea, which was a staple drink of the Australian colonial period.