![]() ![]() A stay at camp lasted eight weeks, with a fee of $250. Axman founded Camp Cody in Cambridge, Maryland as an athletics-based summer camp for boys age 5-15. ![]() The nickname "Coach" remained in place throughout his ownership of Camp Cody (until about the mid 1950s) and his life, with devoted Cody alumni still referring to him as such, thereafter. Philip Axman, the founder of Camp Cody, was the Director of Physical Education and Head Basketball Coach at Baltimore City College. The campus, also referred to as the Cody Outdoor Center, is currently host to weddings, outsourced camp groups, events, conferences, and its own nature education program. Beginning as a camp with just 50 campers enrolled, the camp now serves hundreds of families from all over the USA and around the world, with a typical camper stay of two or four weeks. It moved to its current site of Freedom, New Hampshire in 1941, where it remained a boys camp until 2001. ![]() Established in 1926 by Philip Axman in Cambridge, Maryland, Camp Cody began as a camp for boys, named after William " Buffalo Bill" Cody. Camp Cody's administration building (still standing today), early 1920s, when the site was owned by the all girls camp, Camp Adeawonda.Ĭamp Cody in Freedom, New Hampshire, is a traditional, overnight, international, and co-ed summer camp, located along the shore of Ossipee Lake.
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