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== Camp Pee Dee == | == Camp Pee Dee == | ||
The Pee Dee Area Council Boy Scouts of America was founded in July of 1928 with William E. Czarnitzki as the first [[Scout Executive]]. The council office was in the city hall in [[Darlington, South Carolina|Darlington]] until it moved to | The Pee Dee Area Council Boy Scouts of America was founded in July of 1928 with William E. Czarnitzki as the first [[Scout Executive]]. The council office was in the city hall in [[Darlington, South Carolina|Darlington]] until it moved to Florence in the 1930s. Mr. Czarnitzki left the Pee Dee Area Council to take the job of Scout Executive of the Central South Carolina council in his home town of [[Columbia, South Carolina|Columbia]] circa March 1930. He returned to Camp Coker for the council anniversary [[camporee]] in November of 1978, which was a very cold weekend! He and Wilbert H. Bernshouse from [[Sumter, South Carolina|Sumter]] were the only people from 1929 at the camporee in 1978. | ||
According to the 1941 Camp Coker bulletin, the question of how the site for Camp Coker was chosen is answered by a story about a good pot of [[fish stew]]. The bulletin recounts that a group of men from Darlington were out looking for a site to be used by the boy scouts for camping. The men traveled to a [[grist mill]] dam on Spot Mill Creek near Society Hill. They had come for a fish stew but later decided that the land looked ideal for the camp site they had been searching for. The grist mill building was still there in 1943 but was torn down sometime after that. | According to the 1941 Camp Coker bulletin, the question of how the site for Camp Coker was chosen is answered by a story about a good pot of [[fish stew]]. The bulletin recounts that a group of men from Darlington were out looking for a site to be used by the boy scouts for camping. The men traveled to a [[grist mill]] dam on Spot Mill Creek near Society Hill. They had come for a fish stew but later decided that the land looked ideal for the camp site they had been searching for. The grist mill building was still there in 1943 but was torn down sometime after that. | ||
