600 Ridgewood Rd, Maplewood, NJ
Time: 1:00pm–4:00pm
The Friends of Eagle Island will hold it's founding meeting on April 2nd from 1-4 pm at Morrow Church in Maplewood. Eagle Island has been a Girl Scout Camp serving local girls for 70 years. Located on Upper Saranac Lake in NY State, it was gifted to the GS of the Oranges and Maplewood in1937 by Henry Graves, Jr. of Orange. On Oct. 11, 2010, the Girl Scout Heart of NJ Council decided to sell Eagle Island. The Friends of Eagle Island, Inc. is a recently incorporated non-profit group of campers, alumnae and supporters, who want to acquire Eagle Island and continue to run it as a premier camp for girls along with other sessions like family camp, women's weekends and work weekends. We intend to continue the legacy gift of the Graves family, to protect the National Historic Landmark Status of the original Adirondack Great Camp buildings and to conserve pristine island property. We invite all supporters to join us in this effort.
