The Very First Boxwell Reservation patches

As a camp that has been serving Boy Scouts for almost 100 years now, Boxwell has more than its fair share of patches to choose from.  Some clearly have better images than others and some have historical significance in their own right.

This week’s patch(es) as from the first camporee at the “new” Boxwell on Old Hickory Lake in 1959. Before the reservation opened for summer camp in 1960, it was open for camping.  There is some evidence we are trying to tack down about when the first camping at “new” Boxwell was exactly, but the first true camporee was 1959. Indeed, for some future Boxwell staff members, this was their introduction to the new area, even though the facilities were far from complete.

The patches here are nothing particularly exciting.  They are camporee patches, after all.  The two shown here were taken by a Scouter who still had the patches in his possession and took a low resolution photo of them.  That simple.  Sometimes the story isn’t that interesting!

The first known Boxwell Reservation (the Old Hickory Lake Boxwell) patches