Pinewoods Camp

Pinewoods Camp occupies 31 acres of white pine woodland between Long Pond and Round Pond in Plymouth, Massachusetts. It began in 1919 as the First National Girl Scout Training Camp, with the first buildings arranged in a square above Long Pond. Cabins, outhouses and pavilions followed in clusters along the slopes, most of them small 12-foot-square wooden cabins with novelty siding and awning windows meant to recall canvas tent flaps. Helen Storrow, a supporter of the Girl Scouts and of English traditional dance, brought dance classes to the camp in the mid-1920s. In 1934 she offered it as a permanent home for the dance school, and from 1935 it was renamed Pinewoods Camp. Early twentieth-century cottages around Round Pond were bought and added as housing. About 62 of roughly 100 buildings date from 1919 to 1940. Newer buildings were designed to match the originals in materials and scale. The camp still operates as a dance and music facility, and it is listed as a district for its association with scouting and traditional dance.