Greenwich Boy Scouts Council board members Edward Anderson, left, Camille Broderick and Walter Stratton, stand before Lake Hillegas, at the 50th celebration of the deed signing of what became the Ernest Thompson Seton Reservation.
(Anne W. Semmes / for the Greenwich Citizen)
After 50 Years, Seton Reservation to Get Deeper Lake
By Anne W. Semmes
In 1958 a fund-raising drive headed up by Prescott Bush Jr. to raise nearly a quarter of a million dollars to buy 75 acres of pristine land from the Greenwich Water Co. for a Boy Scout camp on Riversville Road met with success by unusual means.
By Anne W. Semmes
In 1958 a fund-raising drive headed up by Prescott Bush Jr. to raise nearly a quarter of a million dollars to buy 75 acres of pristine land from the Greenwich Water Co. for a Boy Scout camp on Riversville Road met with success by unusual means.
With less than half of the money raised a deal was struck to sell off gravel from two planned lake sites. That gravel added to the property as collateral won over the mortgage lenders. The deed was signed by the Greenwich Council of the Boy Scouts of America, the lakes created and two years later the land was named the Ernest Thompson Seton Reservation and the centerpiece lake after long-time scout volunteer Tom Hillegas, who had the bright gravel selling idea.
Fifty years later, it's lake dredging time again for the now sediment-filled Hillegas Lake. To celebrate both Camp Seton's 50th anniversary and the major dredging effort to deepen the lake from its now two feet to a planned 12-14 feet, town and Scout officials gathered by the algae-covered lake last Thursday on the very day the deed was signed on Aug. 28, 1958.
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