In doing my usual insightful research into where Camp Mills was because of the film strips that Larry agonized over because they were so long, I found a site that is one for BSA camp patches collectors. Someone indicated that Camp Mills was a day camp or something as part of what was to become Camp Howell. But the film strips had several signs indicating that 194 was in campaign in Oscoda County, and the Huron National Forest. I was eventually able to find it by enlarging a Detroit Area Council handbook that listed three of their camps. I followed all three camps and Camp Kabekonah led me to an article in the Free Press about scouts going to camp from Detroit in 1934, and there they mentioned the three Area Council camps–Camp Brady (near Waterford) Camp Kabekonah (in Alpena Co.) and Camp Mills in Oscoda Co. Camp Mills was supposed to be on Bull Head Lake. But on current maps there is no Bullhead Lake in Oscoda. Eventually I stumbled across an Echo Lake that had Bullhead in parenthesis next to it. Lo! Obviously Bullhead Lake needed a change (Just as Carp Lake was changed to Paradise Lake). And there was Camp Mills.
Today it is still a camp but it’s the Greek Orthodox Metropolis camp for Greeks in Detroit.
by Jerry Kilar 09FEB21