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Higby Camp

Higby Camp

Higby Camp

Higby Camp

Higby Camp

Higby family

Higby Camp dictionary
On the inside cover of the dictionary is handwritten:
"If this book should chance to roam, box its ears and send it home."

Box for Higby dictionary Box for Higby dictionary

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Higby Camp was located on Big Moose Lake in New York's Adirondack Mountains. It was built in the 1880s by James H. Higby, who was a "guide and camp builder," according to "Big Moose Lake New York: in vintage postcards," by William L. Scheffler and Frank Carey.

Higby was one of the first camps built on Big Moose Lake.

The original camp burned in 1921 and was rebuilt. The place was apparently quite a compound, with online references to Higby Camp, Higby Lodge, Higby Club, Higby Subdivision and even a Higby Playhouse. What is apparent is that a lodge was built in addition to the original hunting and fishing camps made of roughhewn log cabins.

An entry on this website written by a Higby descendent said the camp was sold in the 1970s.

Leah Lear, a Higby family descendant, recently shared photos of a family portrait as well as a leather-bound Higby Camp 18,000-word dictionary. As part of a book arts college course, Leah made a lovely decorative box to hold the dictionary and to help preserve it for future generations (all shown below).


 

 

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