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Visionary Homeowners
Transform Girl Scout Camp


By Chris Faircloth
Photos by Myra Ray

Mature beech trees stand as stately sentinels, their smooth bark carved with the initials of girls who camped, danced and played among them during long-ago retreats on the wooded, rocky land that is now quiet and serene. The stillness is broken only by the occasional barking of dogs and the babble of the Haw Creek as it winds its way through the woods. These charming carvings done decades ago by adolescent girls, a stone chimney and a few outbuildings are all that remain of what once was a lively Girl Scout camp nestled in the woods along the banks of the Haw Creek in southern Alamance County...
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