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Hale Reservation
Hale Reservation is a non-government affiliated not-for- nization in 1926 as the Dover-Westwood Scout Reserva-
profit educational organization that operates over a tion of the Boston Council. Twenty acres were opened as
thousand acres of land, 20 miles of trail, and four ponds a scout camp during that year as Camp Storrow as well.
in Massachusetts. Hale Reservation is best known for its The Dover-Westwood Scout Reservation continued to ac-
summer camps for children and young adults, as well quire land through the 1930s. In 1930, a new corporation
as its year-round educational programs. It also loans out named Scoutland was established. In 1941, Robert Hale
land to other educational and recreational organizations died and Scoutland was renamed the Robert Hale Camp-
to enable diversity of programs and maximum use of ing Reservation in his honor.[2]
Hale’s land.
References
Summer Camps [1] "Hale Day Camp FAQ". http://halereservation.org/
Hale offers only a day camp program called The Hale Day camp_hdc_faq.html#ACAAccredited. Retrieved
Camp. It is accredited by the American Camp Association 2011-06-17.
and accepts grades Pre-K to 10th.[1] [2] "Hale History". http://halereservation.org/
nr_history_hale.html. Retrieved 2011-06-17.
History
Work on acquiring Hale Reservation’s over a thousand
External links
acres of land was began by Robert Hale in the early 1900s. • Hale Reservation: http://halereservation.org/
In 1918 he established a formal tie with the Boy Scouts index.html
of America. Hale Reservation officially began as an orga-
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Categories:
• Educational organizations based in the United States
• Non-profit organizations based in Massachusetts
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