Camp Olmsted (Boy Scouts of America)

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Camp Olmstead is a Scout campsite located in the Allegheny National Forest, near the city of Warren in Warren County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is operated by the Chief Cornplanter Council of the Boy Scouts of America.

Camp Olmsted was purchased for the Council in 1926 by George W. Olmsted.^[1] Olmsted had previously founded the Long Island Lighting Company (LILCo) and served as Chairman of the National Camping Committee of the Boy Scouts of America.

Camp Olmsted's first summer camping season was in 1927. For nearly forty years, Boy Scouts camped in the nearly-flat bottomland along the bank of the Allegheny River. However, the construction of the Kinzua Dam and the later Seneca Pumped Storage Generating Station forced the displacement of the camp to a location a distance up the hillside from the river. Because of this, the camp now has one of the steepest grades of any Boy Scout camp in America.

The camp serves as the site for the Chief Cornplanter Council's Order of the Arrow Lodge, Gyantwachia #255, first organized in 1944 aand originally called "Cornplanter Lodge." "Gyantwachia" means "the planter," or "he who plants (corn)" and was the Seneca name of Chief Cornplanter. The Lodge totem is the wolf. ^[1]

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1. ^ ^{a b} Camp Olmstead, Chief Cornplanter Council, Boy Scouts of America