The Boy Scouts of America began in 1910, and by 1912 Scouting was established in the Mahoning Valley. Camp Stambaugh opened in July 1919 through a gift from the estate of local industrialist Henry H. Stambaugh, who had named his friend and business partner Phillip J. Thompson trustee of his 86.5-acre Indian Creek Farm with the expectation that Thompson would convey it to the local Scouting organization. In 1919 the property was mostly a treeless pasture, and Indian Creek could be seen from Stambaugh’s hay barn near Leffingwell Road. That first summer, a Council Ring was carved from an old limestone quarry just north of the creek. In the early 1920s the camp was reforested. In 1923 Indian Creek was dammed to create a four-acre lake. Scouts built a bridge over the creek in 1925, and during the next two decades many cabins and other structures were built. The K.L. Brown Pavilion, named for Scout Council executive Kenneth Brown, was erected in 1947 on the foundation of Henry Stambaugh’s barn. The Rotary Club of Youngstown funded construction of a swimming pool in 1963. A donation from the Marino family added 28.5 acres to the camp in 1946, and in 1985 the Scout Council purchased the adjacent 223-acre Swanston property. Camp Stambaugh is the second oldest continuously operating Scout camp in Ohio and is tied for ninth oldest in the United States.