Camp Campbell Gard
Camp Campbell Gard is a YMCA camp located on 600 acres (2.4 km2) along the Great Miami River six miles (10 km) northeast of Hamilton, Ohio. The camp is on Augspurger Road in St. Clair Township. The camp was dedicated to the memory of a World War I airman, Charles Campbell Gard, by his father Homer Gard in 1926, six years after Charles Campbell Gard's death. The dedication on Friday, July 1, 1926, featured remarks by former Ohio governors, James M. Cox and Charles P. Taft II, son of William Howard Taft. When it opened in 1926, the new camp had 20 buildings, including a 20-foot (6.1 m) by 80-foot (24 m) dining hall with electric stoves and refrigeration; five cabins (quickly expanded to ten) that housed 12 people each; a recreational building "for rainy days"; an informal playground for games; and a guest house "equipped with hot and cold shower baths." As specified by Homer Gard, the camp also featured facilities for “crippled children” to make the facility accessible to the handicapped. Today the camp has expanded to 600 acres (2.4 km2) and features heating and air conditioning.
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Augspurger Road, St. Clair Township
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N 39.431982 ° | E -84.49423 ° |
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Lake Lyndsay
Augspurger Road
45055 St. Clair Township
Ohio, United States
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