sentences:  Interviews with Hugh Eldridge Carr and General Floyd Hansen, Bellingham Eagle Scouts from the early 1920s, indicate the camp was active prior to 1919.The land was used by permission of owner H. P. Jukes (the council treasurer) prior to transferring ownership to the BSA in 1927.It was originally used by the Bellingham Council as Camp H. P. Jukes and has been in continuous use since that time with the exception of two seasons during WWII (1943 and 1944).