The Yates Lodge at Camp WaBak
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In one of my previous blog posts, I talked about visiting the Greenville (SC) Library in the hopes of finding out information about Charles H. Yates. One of the lodges at Camp WaBak is named after him, and there’s a very interesting item in the lodge itself that has always piqued my curiosity. When I arrived at the library, I found out that The Greenville News archives are not indexed, so my researching hopes went out the window. The library staff did find Mr. Yates’ death certificate. I didn’t ask for it nor did I really want it, but the woman who gave it to me seemed very excited to have found it, so I just smiled and said thank you even though it was a little morbid. I ended up discovering articles about the purchase of WaBak instead, which was just as exciting to me if not moreso than what I had originally intended for my visit. Continue reading
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