This promotional video outlines the program, facilities, and traditions that make Camp Horseshoe one of the finest Boy Scout resident camps in the country. Please visit www.hsr-bsa.org for more information. Special thanks to Jon DeVirgilio for all of his hard work filming and editing this outstanding video.
In 1926, after numerous searches for a suitable camp for summer programs, the Chester County Council came upon a property owned by the Reynolds family of Maryland. The camp opened in 1927 with staff working on the first facilities, and it was originally named Camp Horseshoe for the shape that the Octoraro Creek makes as it winds around the property. Today, the Horseshoe Scout Reservation, is located covers 1200 acres of wilderness area that straddles the Mason-Dixon line between Pennsylvania and Maryland.
The history of the camp reaches much further in to the past. Native Americans from the Lenni-Lenape tribe once lived on what is today the Horseshoe Scout Reservation, as evidenced by an archeological dig conducted in 1988, that unearthed numerous artifacts and relics.
In recent years, Camp Horseshoe has undergone numerous changes. From the original farmland and the handful of campsites to follow, Horseshoe grew its program, expanded to fourteen campsites and built other excellent facilities to support the scouting movement in Chester County and beyond.
2007 marked the 80th Anniversary celebration of Camp Horseshoe's service to the youth of the east coast, having accommodated units from not only all of Pennsylvania, but troops from Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Delaware, Connecticut, North Carolina, Florida and Virginia.
One of the few remaining seven day camps (Sunday to Sunday), Camp Horseshoe has a much heralded legacy and history as one of the finest traditional Boys Scout facilities in the United States.
