SUMMER CAMP
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- Location
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NYS Historic
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Arts & Culture
- Cayuga Nature Center, Ulysses, NY 14850, USA
- 42.519105, -76.554937
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Town of Ulysses
SUMMER CAMP
Inscription
SUMMER CAMPCAYUGA PREVENTORIUM EST. 1914
AT ESTY POINT FOR CHILDREN
EXPOSED TO TUBERCULOSIS.
MOVED HERE 1939, CLOSED 1944.
BECAME NATURE CENTER 1975.
WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2021
In 1914 the Cayuga Tuberculous Preventorium was established at Etsy Point on the shores of Cayuga Lake. Its mission was to provide a safe summer camp environment for children whose families suffered from TB. In 1939 a new building was constructed at this location and the camp moved here. The former camp was transferred for $1 to a Fish and Game Club. The Preventorium instituted there program here in 1939, but it closed during the Second World War and in 1975 became a Nature Center.
