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Title	Camp Butler, 1962
Subject	Camp Butler Boy Scouts Exteriors Buildings Boston Heights Peninsula
Description	Exterior photograph of the new Camp Butler, a new Boy Scout camp adjoined to Camp Manatoc in Boston Township. The entrance was near the C. Emerson Reeder home. The new camp bordered Camp Manatoc, but was seperated by a ravine. Camp Butler was named for the late Dr. Karl H. Butler of Akron, who gave the original land for Manatoc. It had no dining hall, so Scouts camping in 10 troops for six weeks had to cook out.
Contributors	Akron Beacon Journal
Date	May 11, 1962
Time period	1960s
Type	image
Format	8 x 10 in.
Source	Camp_Butler_1a.jpg
Verso Transcription	Army Scout Camp / Rt 303 / Beacon Journal Photo May 11 1962 / 2 col state saturday / Pictured in the center is Elizabeth Clarke Copley, who married Gardiner Greene of Boston in 1800. Their daughter, Martha, married Charles Amory of Boston and brought the painting to the U.S. in 1864. Up to that time the portrait hung in the Copley home in London. The occasion for the painting was the artist's reunion with his family in London after leaving them in Boston two years earlier to study art in Italy. Summit County histories list "Gardner Green of Boston" as one of the original proprietors of Copley, originally a part of Medina County until Summit was created in 1840. Karl Grismer's history recounted that Copley was "first named Greenville and later changed to Copley to honor the maiden name of Green's wife, said to be a descendant of Lord Copley of England." Sounds like the same people. The Old Pioneer Spirit. By July 4 the Akron Area Boy Scout Council will have a new camp site open adjoining its present Camp Manatoc in Boston Twp. Motorists along Rt. 303 between Boston Heights and Peninsula already can see the signs for Camp Butler. The entrance is near the C. Emerson Reeder home. Manatoc's gateway is off Truxell and Akron-Peninsula rds. The two camp site border each other but are separated by ravines. The new Camp Butler is named for the late Dr. Karl H. Butler of Akron who gave the original land for Manatoc. It will have no dining hall so Scouts camping in 10 troops for six-week periods will cook out. An Olympic-sized swimming pool has been constructed. The Scouts' capital development fund drive of three years ago provided the money for land purchase and development.
Relation	Akron Beacon Journal Photograph Collection
About the Collection	This collection includes photographs of Akron and Summit County, Ohio, selected from the archives of the Akron Beacon Journal and contributed through a partnership between the Akron Beacon Journal and the Akron-Summit County Public Library. Images may include crop marks, blacking, opaquing, painting, retouching and other enhancements made prior to publication, including markings that may obscure or revise original elements of the photographs. These markings and enhancements have been left intact intentionally.
Rights	Copyright Beacon Journal Publishing Co., Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Reproductions	http://www.summitmemory.org/cdm/abjreproductions
Date created	July 16 2015
Date modified	August 01 2015

Camp Butler, 1962

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