Camp Alderkill Retirement and Museum Site

 

Camp Alderkill land is recorded on the Frank Teal papers to have  been purchased in 1945. Alderkill was a camp for boys and girls ranging in age from five thru fourteen.  It was located on 135 acres of fields, meadows , and woodland, ninety miles north of New York City in Dutchess County (As advertised in the Sunday N.Y. Times).   Enrollment consisted of campers, the children up to ten are called the bunkhouse and those up to fourteen consisted of the Hill group. "The name "Alderkill" comes from "Landsman Kill" which is the stream running through our camp land, and from the Black Alder which grows in profusion along it's edges." Margaret Treadwell

This site can be contacted in writing at campalderkillreunion@hotmail.com   for any correction or new information and any photos. Additions will be coming slowly so please have some patience I still run on Alderkill time, however I have been able to upload a few photos please feel welcome to check them out and dont forget to sign the guestbook this is essential to get our site known about on the web- Thank you.   William Brower WebMaster   Read article written in the Rhinebeck Gazette. * Please sign the guestbook on the Contact page.