While he collected rocks and mementos (mostly by mail, through Rotary Clubs) from all over the world, the campers and leaders used a daily “service period” to collect native stone, out of which the Thomas F. Within a few years, Uncle Johnny had a dream of a lodge dedicated to World Friendship. When the quarters were filled, campers had to eat in two shifts in Geer Dining Hall, located where the Elks Gym is now. Five frame cabins and nine tents sheltered the campers that first summer. The land was “given” to the camp as a perpetual trust with the stipulation that the land would revert to the company should it not be used as a resident camp.Īfter many months of land clearing, stump pulling, and construction involving new mountain friends, as well as countless old friends, Camp Greenville opened “On Top of the Blue Ridge” in 1925. Gower made several trips to Chicago to persuade the Saluda Land & Lumber Company to give 446 acres atop Standing Stone Mountain. Cleveland donated 29 acres, including the site of Symmes Chapel or Pretty Place (also named Cleveland Cliff).
The original survey “for the Greenville YMCA Camp” is dated September 1, 1921. One look was all the visitors needed to convince them that this was the site they wanted. Harvey Cleveland persuaded the doubtful group to look at a site on top of the mountain beyond Caesar’s Head where, he assured them, there was ample water supply, enough level space for a large athletic field, a commanding view of the valley, and a waterfall 150 feet high. In 1920, Uncle Johnny and his Camp Committee began thinking about obtaining a campsite “higher up.” Mr. An active program of baseball, field hockey, hiking, river hiking, swimming, sliding on the shoals, and campfire programs and initiations provided summer fun, instruction, and inspiration for several hundred boys. Floorless army pyramidal tents provided shelter for 60 to 150 campers for as long as seven weeks in the later seasons. One frame building served as kitchen, dining hall, infirmary, camp office, and recreation hall in inclement weather. “Uncle Johnny” Holmes (General Secretary of the “Y” from 1914 to 1942) directed the camp in 19.ĭue to complicating factors brought about by World War I, the Greenville Y had no summer camp for boys in 1917, but Camp Greenville was reborn in 1918 and continued at Blythe Shoals through 1924. Hagood “on the bend of the West Saluda River just above Blythe Shoals,” where a permanent camp was established under the direction of Kilbourne, Charles Dushan (who succeeded Kilbourne as Y physical director) and John M. There followed three 2-week seasons 1914 – 1916 on property of H. In 1913 the campsite was at Glen Echo, near Brevard, NC, on the property of D.
Kilbourne, first physical director of the Greenville YMCA. About 25 boys attended August 1-15, under the direction of Charles J. It is also open to the general publicĬamp Greenville had its beginning in 1912 at a site near Cedar Mountain, North Carolina. Services are not regularly scheduled though, as this chapel is spiritual center for the YMCA’s camps, other retreats and conferences. The chapel is open every day beginning at dawn, making it a very moving place for a sunrise. The original construction was completed in 1941. Symmes gave the chapel to the YMCA Camp Greenville as a spiritual center for campers. Known as “Pretty Place”, this chapel sits nearly 3000 feet above sea level with scenic views for miles. Let us tell you a little bit more about this hidden gem in South Carolina located just 3 hours and 45 minutes from Charleston. Some have found this on a journey, a wedding, retreat, rejoice or just to take in the breathtaking marriage of nature and religion. This truly remarkable church is open to the peaks of mountaintops, sunrises, clouds and a place for spiritual rest or education. Yet, hidden away in the Western Carolina mountains, in Cleveland, South Carolina is such a place where you can escape and get closer to the heavens. We are bombarded by an explosion of news, social media, financial pressures and political turmoil. Lunch & snacks included.We live in a day and age where more and more we are seeking answers, spirituality and meditative release. Any unused days are refunded at summer’s end. Email: Description: Virginia Fishing Adventures and Virginia Outside offersįishing, mountain biking, kayak touring and exploring day and overnightĪlexandria Country Day School, 2400 Russell Rd, Alexandria, VA 22301ĭescription: Choose from activities including sewing, coding, film, sports & more! Buy any number of days & use at any time.
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