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Camp Miakonda, located on Sylvania Avenue just west of Toledo, Ohio, is the sixth oldest Boy Scout Camp in the United States. The original land was purchased in 1917 and the camp was enlarged to 198 acres at some point during the 1920's. Although the camp was purchased in 1917 and the first building, originally the camp office and now the museum constructed, summer camp was not held there until 1924. At one time the camp had the world's largest swimming pool created by damming a creek that flowed through camp and then filtering the water. It had tree houses, a tipi village that was staffed by a Native American, and a one hundred foot Sea Scout "ship" built on an island in the hand dug lake. Immediately after World War II, a promotional film "Your Scout Today - Your Citizen Tomorrow" was filmed at Miakonda with Joe E. Brown, a well known film star and a Toledo native narrating. This slide presentation was created for the Tindeuchen Lodge (Order of the Arrow) annual banquet on March 3, 2002 and provides a glimpse of the historical Miakonda. It also provides pictures of J. St. Clair Mendenhall, the first professional Scout Executive in Toledo who was instrumental in the establishment of the regular summer camp program and the purchase of Camp Miakonda and who founded the first Scout honorary society - Gimogash. There is a picture of a group of Gimogash Eagles on the roof of Scout Headquarters in New York in 1919. This gathering was the largest number of eagle scouts who had ever visited scout headquarters at one time to that date and represented a substantial portion of all the Eagle Scouts in the United States. The slide show is a glimpse of the historical Miakonda. It is not a definitive exploration of the camp history and is rather more beginning of telling the Miakonda Story. We hope that you enjoy. Happy Scouting.
Dave Eby
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