HISTORY OF CAMP MAQUA

1916 – Cottage on Bay Shore near Killarney Beach was rented.

1918 – Cottage on Ricomah Beach was rented.

1919 – Tierney Cottage at Aplin Beach was purchased for $1,000.

1922 – YMCA Sand Lake camp was rented. (Camp Iroquois)

1924 – Sixty-four acres purchased on Loon Lake in Hale. Lodge was built and completed by May. Dutton farmhouse was purchased for $500. Camp opened summer of 1924.

1925 – Aplin Beach Cottage sold for $1650.

1926 – Seven Huts were built by Alladin Company. (Bay City)

1927 – Boathouse and Craft Hut were built.

1929 – Hostess room and small porch added to lodge.

1930 – Grass tennis courts built sometime in the twenties were re-rolled.

1933 – Chapel Hill was built.

1936 – Additional property was purchased from D&M Railroad.

1937 – Elaborate timbered pavilion was built off the boathouse.

1938 – Upper part of boathouse remodeled to accommodate more girls and screened porch was added to Craft Hut.

1940 – Two cement tennis courts were built and donated by Mr. Calvin and upper screen porch added to Dutton sometime in the forties.

1952 – Two showers, toilets and Bradley Basin were installed in first “Brownie”.

1959 – Three Huts were built in Senior Village by Alladin Company.

1963 – Twenty-three acres purchased from Ira Schofield for $10,000.

1966 – Senior “Brownie” built.

1969 – Sixty acres purchased from John Webb for $30/acre.

1976 – Camp Maqua merged with Camp Iroquois from Sand Lake (YWCA Boys Camp) to become co-ed Camp Maquois on Loon Lake property.

1978 – Last year of camp sessions

1979 – Sold to private owners—the Robert Sukenik family, who subdivided land into ten separate parcels.

See Also:
About The Present Owners
About the Camp Maqua Website