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The Cottage

Camp Kohahna started on the Baker Farm. The Baker family would move out of their house during summers, so the camp could take it over for staff quarters and kitchen facilities.   The family stayed in a garage/workshop building Fred had hired neighbor Martin Basch to build.  Gradually the building was improved into this cottage.  Lucille and Jack Barratt later lived here when they first came back to live on the farm. 

The camp girls stayed in tents and in "the long house", which was a bunk house located southeast of the house.  Eventually Camp Kohahna bought property to the north from the Bakers and others, and moved to that location.

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