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“Y” Camps of Salem Chapel Township
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“Y” Camps Betty Hastings and Civitan were located near Old Field Creek, with Civitan one and a half miles north and Betty Hastings three-quarters of a mile south. The Glade Street YWCA opened Camp Betty Hastings in 1936, offering residential summer programs for schoolgirls and year-round amenities for single working women. Racially integrated women's groups and co-ed “Y” groups used the camp as early as the 1950s. Camp Civitan opened in 1947 on land the Civitan Club purchased for the YMCA to use as a camp for African American boys. The camp operated under a co-op agreement and was used as a summer camp by African American YMCA, YWCA, Girl Scout, and Boy Scout groups before integration. Both camps closed in the mid 1980s.
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