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Founded 1937 — on South Bend's southwest side since 1940
Founding and course: Camp Millhouse began in 1937 as a camp for children with polio — the camp's own account, carried in its executive director's telling and its published histories. When the polio vaccine emptied that purpose, the camp became what it remains: a residential summer camp for children and adults with disabilities of many kinds. It has stood on the southwest side of South Bend, at 25600 Kelly Road, since 1940. It is accredited by the American Camp Association, takes up to sixty campers a week, and marked its eighty-fifth anniversary in 2022. It stands in this account as the disability charities' oldest local institution, a generation older than LOGAN below; the two are separate bodies and neither's record absorbs the other's.
Sources:
- Camp Millhouse, published camp histories and its executive director's account (MudLOVE, "Bringing Camp Home," 2021; the camp's event materials, 2025) — the 1937 founding as a polio camp; the transition after the vaccine; the southwest-side ground since 1940; the eighty-fifth anniversary in 2022; sixty campers a week; 25600 Kelly Road.
- American Camp Association, camp directory — the accreditation.