This week, we have another view of Boy Scout Camp Manning on Pomp’s Pond. The caption at the bottom of the photograph reads: “EATS Enough Sed! Camp Manning B.S.A. Andover, Mass”.
Dining Hall of Camp Manning in the 1920s or 30s
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Photo of the Week
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
Photo of the Week
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010For the next few weeks, we’ll feature scenes of Pomp’s and Haggett’s Ponds. One side of Pomp’s Pond is now a Town of Andover recreation site and town beach. The other side of the Pond is now Girl Scout Camp Maude Eaton.
This view is of Boy Scout Camp Manning in the 1920s, “Our location on Indian Ridge.” Camp Manning closed in the early 1950s, and in 1963 the Town purchased the spot for a recreation area. The town beach now occupies this space.
Boy Scout Camp Manning, in the early 1900s
Pomp’s Pond was named for Pompey Lovejoy, who came to Andover as a young child, the slave of Captain William Lovejoy. Lovejoy gained his freedom when he was 38; he lived to the ripe old age of 102. During his lifetime, Lovejoy was a soldier during the Revolution and lived on the bank of the Pond with his wife Rose. Lovejoy and his wife are buried in the South Church burial ground. His tombstone reads, “Pomp Lovejoy, born in Boston, a slave; died in Andover, a free man, Feb. 23, 1826; much respected as a sensible, amiable, upright man.”
Photo of the Week
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
Summer vacation and camp always ends too soon!
Before we say a final good bye to summer, our photo of the week visits Pomps Pond one last time. Today’s photograph is of swim time at the B.S.A. Camp Manning on Pomps Pond in the 1920s.
Photo of the Week
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
Boating and fishing on Pomp's Pond has long been a popular summertime activity in Andover..
Today’s photo of the week is of Pomps Pond, long a site of both recreation and industry in Andover. The Town of Andover’s Pomps Pond Recreation Park was started in 1923 by a group of citizens who cleared the beach area and opened it for swimming. The town acquired the beach and built the first bathhouse the following year. Today Pomps Pond is home to the town beach and Camp Maude Eaton, run by the Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts. In the 1920s the Pond was also home to Camp Manning, run by the Boy Scouts of America.
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Our photo of the week illustrates two historical uses of Pomps Pond. Behind the two boys in the boat you can see the ice house owned by a succession of ice companies including B.F. Holt, People’s Ice, and Metropolitan Ice. Ice was cut from the pond in the winter and stored in large ice houses. In 1936 the Andover Townsman reported that “In the hot weather of summer, two deliveries a day were sometimes made, and not emergency call, either by day or by night, has ever been denied.” 10,000 pounds of ice were cut annually from Pomps Pond and other bodies of water in Andover.
