Well the more I dig into the history of Boy Scouts of America activities in Pittsburgh regarding camps and properties they once owned in area the worse it gets with Hum Buggery .
Originally known as Allegheny Council then Allegheny Trails Council and now Laurel Highlands Council
Back during the Allegheny Council days of 1950s. There was the Hubbard Boy Scout Reservation in Allison Park which was donated to the council and was a former country club which they sold to university of Pittsburgh in 1955 and is now known once again as Wildwood Country club.
Council
claimed they where running out of room and civilization was getting too
close and they would buy property in Butler county to replace it . But
I am sure The Original Clubs owners wanted the Club back after the new
homes started sprouting out there and a few dollars changed hands .
Yes
that property they bought in Butler County would be the now closed and
sold Camp Semiconon which they lied about Just like Tionesta .Which
they never built the promised lake for Semiconon in the article.
That's where the name Hubbard comes from for the fancy place they built out in Farmington.
So now we have another mystery which no one wants to talk about. The Missing Forsythe Log cabin which once sat in East Liberty and was donated to the Council
The cabin itself has a long and interesting history itself.
Starting out in Wilkinsburg and changing many hands and being moved to East Liberty.
Where finally it was sold to a developer who could not get anyone to take it so he donated it to the scouts .
Who moved it out to the Hubbard Reservation and apparently rebuilt it and according to an old caretaker of property burned to the ground because of termites which is unverified could have just been spirited off to some Corporate Pukes Executives private camp property ,and any trace if it was there along with the memorial marker plaque The DAR Daughters of the American Revolution put on the cabin have disappeared into history.
Now
if it did burn there is a small chance local fire company may have been
called to camp to help put it out and there would be a record which is
one area to investigate .
Of course this is one of several Log cabins to conveniently disappear around City of Pittsburgh including the one that was in Phillips Park in Carrick and River-view Park in North Side
Pittsburgh is real good at destroying and making disappear historic structures and Objects .
Its a dam shame how much of our history has been lost forever.
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