Lourdes Camp
In 1942, the fifty acre F. Harris Nichols family estate at Ten Mile Point was giving to the Catholic Charities of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse for a camp for children. The new camp was named Lourdes Camp and opened the same year. It replaced "Morning Star Manor" the Catholic camp for children at Little York on Tully Lake. Later an additional fifty acres was added to the camp. Currently it has 100 acres (40 ha) of land and 1,500 feet (460 m) of water front, with nineteen cabins, an infirmary, chapel, dining hall, boat house, main lodge, and working bathrooms. At one time it had separate camping periods for boys and girls during the summer, but more recently it has been coeducational. It is probably the best summer camp for kids available,
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