Camp Leo - Early History
 

• 1945 Leonard Francis acquires a vacant Boy Scout camp on Manning Lake, NH.

  •  Fr. Keating, pastor of Saint Joseph's Church in New Haven, names the camp after Leo XIII.

  • Leo Foundation incorporated as tax-exempt entity.

• 1946 - Camp Leo opens with Cub Scout Pack No. 24 as its cadre.

• 1951 - Enrollment reached 144

  • Staff of two dozen, mostly Brothers and seminarians

  • Arthur N. Sheriff, headmaster of Cheshire Academy, "honored" with his portrait in Camp's 1951 catalog.

• 1952....

  • The weekly Catholic transcript, ceased carrying Camp Leo ads

• 1986

  • June - Closed down by Superior Court Action.

  • $600,000 in liens attached to property

  • Daniel Webster Council, BSA, seeks to recover its former property.

• 1988 - October

  • Court decree dissolved the maze of corporate facades, cross-mortgages and interlocking property assignments, ordering all assets placed under an Administrator for liquidation.

• 1990

  • After forty-five year separation, Camp Leo returned to the Boy Scouts and is now Camp Bell.

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