About Camp Sargent
Camp Sargent FUN facts:
- Served approximately 168,000 children in its 84 year history
- Named after Eaton B. Sargent
- In 1924 the land for Camp Sargent on Naticook Lake was purchased by the Nashua YMCA as an overnight camp for boys in honor of Eaton B. Sargent who was mayor of Nashua and then YMCA board president.
- Girls were not added until 1961.
- Eaton Dudley Sargent, son of Andrew P. & Mary Julina (Bean) Sargent was born 13 Aug 1870 in Bradford, Orange County, Vermont and d. 27 March 1944 in Crescent City Florida. He married 18 Sep 1901 in Nashua NH to Clara Josephine Marsh Gage, daughter of Daniel & Marietta Lund (Marsh) Gage. She was born in 1870 and d. 1960 [Eaton's parents were both natives of Candia NH]. Eaton & Clara had 3 children Priscilla G. (who m. Robert Y. Condit), Helen M (who m. Robert W. Fay) and Philip A. (who m. Madeline Moran and had 2 sons, Philip Thomas and Eaton Dudley).
- 22 acres
- Camp Sargent, which is on the same lake (Lake Naticook) as Camp Naticook, the camp for the town of Merrimack
- 2007 introduced “specialty camps” for the first time ever!
- February 2007- introduced the first ever Camp Sargent only website for anything and everything Camp Sargent
- December 2007- the Lookout Newsletter was distributed to over 850 friends of YMCA Camp Sargent.
- Click here to view the 1st ever Lookout newsletter
Click here for the history of Merrimack, NH