Massawepie Rural Station     Fifth Scout Camp Cancel    Type II

07/15/54

Tupper Lake, NY   Massawepie Rur. Sta.

Example on message side of Massawepie Boy Scout Camps canoeing chrome postcard.

Published by Marks & Fuller, Rochester, NY.

This 4-bar hand cancel, type II, was in use from 1961 through 1969 and longer.   Type I (horizontal text order is month/day/time/year), was used from 1954 through 1960, and is cataloged in the Additions Section.

The Massawepie Scout Camps opened in 1952.   The Camps are located in the southeast corner of St. Lawrence County, NY, within the 110 square mile Town of Piercefield.   Also within the Town, and close to the Camp, are the hamlets of Childwold, Gale & Piercefield.   For the first two years a limited postal service was provided at Childwold.   Starting in 1954, service was provided by the Tupper Lake, NY post office in Franklin County, 13 miles east of the Camp.   The Massawepie Rural Station PO itself was within the Camp boundaries & on Camp property.

See a 1952 Cover from the Camp in the Corner Card Section of US Covers.

Also see: "Massawepie Scout Camp" by Lawrence Clay & Hallvard Slettebø , SOSSI Journal Volume 59, No. 4 (July/August 2010), page 104.