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The American Camp Association (ACA), formerly known as the American Camping Association, is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit that serves the United States. It is an association for camp owners, camp professionals and others interested in summer camps and similar camp programs. Since 1948, the ACA has offered the only nationwide external professional ...
May 8, 1975. The First Middlebrook encampment refers to the spring encampment of the Continental Army, commanded by General George Washington, during the American War for Independence near the Middle Brook in Bridgewater Township, New Jersey (between Martinsville and Bound Brook) in 1777. The second, longer winter cantonment took place in 1778 ...
Brooklyn, New York City, New York. 40°41′23″N 73°59′38″W / 40.689668°N 73.993763°W / 40.689668; -73.993763 (Washington's Headquarters, Battle of Long Island) August 27 to 30, 1776. August 27 – Battle of Long Island. August 29–30 – Retreat to Manhattan.
The American Camp Association is a nonprofit association of over 2,400 accredited camps and more than 12,000 camp professionals who seek to preserve, promote, and improve the camp experience.
Happiness Is Camping is a non-profit ACA-accredited overnight camp for kids with cancer, ages 6–16, and their siblings. The camp is located on 145 acres in Hardwick, New Jersey, United States. Happiness Is Camping is free to all who attend, and is recognized by the IRS as a 501(c) (3) organization.
Ocean Grove was founded in 1869 as an outgrowth of the camp meeting movement in the United States, when a group of Methodist clergymen, led by William B. Osborn and Ellwood H. Stokes, formed the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association to develop and operate a summer camp meeting site on the New Jersey seashore. [16]
October 16, 2012. Camp Evans Historic District is an area of the Camp Evans Formerly Used Defense Site in Wall Township, New Jersey. The site of the military installation (40°11′08″N 074°03′45″W[4]) is noted for a 1914 transatlantic radio receiver and various World War II / Cold War laboratories of the United States Army (e.g., signal ...
Camp meetings, which are outdoor religious revival services, began for the purpose of revitalizing faith, particularly in the aftermath of the American Civil War.In 1866, under the authority of the officers of the Newark Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the "Newark Conference Camp Meeting Association of Methodists" operated several annual Camp Meetings at Lake Speedwell near ...