In 1926, Ohio Governor Alvin Donahey approved setting aside 55 acres of the Roosevelt Game Refuge for a Boy Scout camp. Since that time Camp Oyo has served Boy Scouts and other groups from Ohio and Kentucky. The name Oyo comes from an Iroquois word meaning great water or principal river. During the peak of the Great Depression in 1933, local Scout executive Harry Wagner sought assistance from the Civil Works Administration to build eight log structures. These improvements encouraged year-round camping and helped Camp Oyo gain distinction as one of the nation’s foremost Boy Scout camps. Materials for the camp’s construction included blighted chestnut timber cut from the nearby forest and stone from Turkey Creek. Seven log buildings, including the octagon-shaped dining hall and a frontier-style blockhouse, remain in use. The camp is owned by the Simon Kenton Council, Boy Scouts of America. Lt. Gary Nolan Shy was killed in action in Vietnam on March 8, 1968.