Camp Merrimac
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Camp Merrimac was a Jewish boys camp located in Contocook, New Hampshire, in the United States.
In 1919, the patriarchs of the Clough family, Joseph and Sylvia Clough, died. That year the property known as "Cloughville" was sold to Mr. Price and Mr. Pick of New York, who established a summer camp for Jewish boys on the site. "Cloughville" was changed to "Camp Merrimac", and the first campers arrived at the property in 1921.
Mr. Price and Mr. Pick ran Camp Merrimac until the late 1940's when it was purchased by Mr. Abe Beleson, a teacher at the Bronx High School of Science. In 1953 Mr. Maury Bleifeld became a part owner, and in 1954 Mr. Harry Levine bought a share of the camp. In 1957 Werner Rothschild, Robert Bomze and Fred Egre purchased the property. In 1958, Egre was bought out, and Rothchild and Bomze continued operating the camp. Both boys and girls attended the camp in the 1960s, '70s. The majority of campers came from the New York metro area.
Keeping the name Camp Merrimac, they continued to run a general summer camp program. In addition, being physical education teachers, they began the New England Hockey School and Figure skating camps. Youth would travel by bus to Concord, New Hampshire to the Everett Area for ice time. Nearing retirement, Mr. Rothchild and Mr. Martin (as Bomze was then known) wanted the property to remain a youth facility. They were searching for a buyer who would continue youth programs.
In 1998 the camp was sold to the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Boston.
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