Remembering the Union Carbide Summer Camps
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Cliffside
Updated 6/21/08
2009 Reunion - Weekend starting July 31, 2009      Click Here!
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Camelot
Updated 6/21/08

Click here for Camps Reunion Words and Pictures - 2002 through 2008

Blue Creek Rails to Trails Project!  (January 2009 Update)

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Carlisle
Updated 6/21/08
For many years, the Union Carbide Corporation in South Charleston, West Virginia, operated summer camps for children of employees. Camp Cliffside, near the Coal River, and Camps Camelot and Carlisle in the forest near Blue Creek offered a wide variety of sports, crafts, learning and fun activities. Each summer, hundreds of "Carbide kids" spent two weeks at camp during their pre-teen and teenage years. I built this site for the memories and in hopes that other alumni would like to remember and appreciate all over again those valuable summers! For example, I discovered that the son of a special friend from the South Charleston school days also has a site, specializing in Carbide camps. He and I share stories and materials, and memories. Visit Randy Rice's site on "related pages," and share your memories in the guestbook, below.   - Robert W. Lilley
Site Statistics - see the reunion effect!
 
Aerial Photos of
all three camps!
  • "Carbide News" Albums
  • Announcements of updates  (06/13/09)
  • View<--- Camps Guestbook ---> Sign
  • Visit Randy Rice's and other camps pages
  • Blue Creek history
  • Blue Creek Winter - Randy Rice, Feb 2007
  • Sword in the Stone - 2007 edition
  • Remembering:
  • General Items - letters, notes, articles
  • The Carlton Gandee Memorial Fund 
  • The Camelot-Carlisle Songbook!
  • Sending kids to camp - cartoon
  • Logos / Pictures - Camps and Carbide
  • Building 82 Demolition, 2009
  •  Page by Bob Lilley,
    Santa Barbara, CA
    (Lilley Health Enterprises)
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