Tuesday, February 06, 2024

1939 Camp Ha Wa Ya woody (Maine)




Camp Ha Wa Ya was founded before 1910

Camp Ha-Wa-Ya was established by Samuel Lee Pitts on Crystal Lake in Harrison, Maine. 

Mr. Pitts managed the Camp as a part-time job during the summer season, and during the off-season he would work in his family company called Joseph Pitts & Son, which was a pulpwood and timberlands business with more than 3,000 acres of timberland near Harrison, Maine.

 During the 1940s, one David Kaufman bought the camp from Mr. Pitts. Mr. Kaufman was a former football coach and had coached teams such as John Hopkins University and Baltimore City College. Through Mr. Kaufman’s connections as a football coach, he recruited many campers from the Baltimore area. 

Camp Ha-Wa-Ya ceased operations, it appears, in the 1960s. The property of Camp Ha-Wa-Ya was purchased by the Deertrees Theater, a generally neighboring property. At the time of purchase, the theater was owned by Emerson College, which used the theater as one of its school programs. Apparently, the idea behind the purchase was to provide students in the area with additional housing in the cabins as well as adding recreational space. 

In 1969, the Emerson College sold the theater, along with the additional lands of Camp Ha-Wa-Ya, to an apparent Ha-Wa-Ya alumnus named David Maturi

It was on Crystal Lake, Harrison, Norway Rd. That's the east side of the lake, and I don't see on the satellite view where it could have been


And that is likely the most info on the internet about that camp. 

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