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'''Camp Eagle Island''', known as EIC, is a resident [[summer camp]] located on Eagle Island in Upper [[Saranac Lake, New York|Saranac Lake]] in New York’s | '''Camp Eagle Island''', known as EIC, is a resident [[summer camp]] located on Eagle Island in Upper [[Saranac Lake, New York|Saranac Lake]] in New York’s Adirondack region and operated by the [[Scouting in New York#Girl Scouting in New York|Girl Scout Council of Greater Essex and Hudson Counties]], part of [[Girl Scouts of the USA]] . The camp occupies buildings originally built in 1899 as a summer retreat for New York Governor and United States Vice-President [[Levi Morton]] and designed by noted architect William Coulter. The mainland camp now known as Pine Ledge was originally a part of the Morton complex. Camp Eagle Island is registered as a National Historic Landmark. | ||
Camp Eagle Island has been a Girl Scout camp since 1937, when the then-property owners, the Graves family of [[Orange, New Jersey]], gave the island to the [[Maplewood]]-[[South Orange]] Girl Scout Council. In time that council became the Girl Scout Council of Greater Essex County, which merged with a [[Hudson County]] council in the late 1990s. | Camp Eagle Island has been a Girl Scout camp since 1937, when the then-property owners, the Graves family of [[Orange, New Jersey]], gave the island to the [[Maplewood]]-[[South Orange]] Girl Scout Council. In time that council became the Girl Scout Council of Greater Essex County, which merged with a [[Hudson County]] council in the late 1990s. | ||
