Mohawk Melodies Camp Mohawk record album

00-2015-78-0

Item

Identifier: 00-2015-78-0

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Phonograph record of Camp Mohawk (Litchfield, CT) campers singing songs. Recording manufactured by the Alma Mater Recording Co., Cresskill, NJ. Recordings AMRC-89 and AMRC-90.

Dates

Creation: probably 1970

Creator

Camp Mohawk (Litchfield, Conn.) (Organization)

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This collection is open for research.

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Biographical / Historical

Camp Mohawk founders came from three local Connecticut YMCA chapters: Roy Saxton of Fairfield; Bill Tyler of Litchfield; and Jim Collins of New Haven. In addition to their year-round programing duties, these men worked together to create a summer camp facility that allowed the regions’ young boys to experience nature and devote time to their religious studies. Founded in 1919, Camp Mohawk’s first camping season was held at the Pootatuck State Forest in New Fairfield, CT, and moved to its existing site along Mohawk Pond in 1920. Mohawk’s first season was attended by 180 boys for 4 weeks, housed in tents of nine campers plus “tent leaders.” in 1921, a four-week girls’ camping session was held in addition to the boys’ four-week session. In 1968, Mohawk transitioned from being a girls’ camp for half the summer and a boys’ camp for the other half to being an all-girls camp for the entire summer. Source: The First 100 Years: Camp Mohawk's History.