Pictured above is the last Summer Camp issued patch from the old Southeast Alabama Council. Camp Rotary is located just north of Eufuala, AL on Cowikee Creek that feeds into the Chattahoochee River. The Camp began operations in the 1920's and served as the Summer Camp home for Southeast Alabama up until 1957. In 1958, the Council moved Summer Camp to their new location "The Boy Scout Reservation" later to be called Camp Alaflo (Council would change name to Alabama-Florida Council when part of the FL Panhandle came on board) near Enterprise, AL.
Camp Rotary items are relatively hard to find due to limited camp weeks during the summer. Also many of their early patches were made of felt and they simply did not hold up well to washing, moths and aging. But Camp Rotary holds greater significance in that it was here that the Cowikee Lodge got its namesake and developed into one of the stronger OA Lodges in the Southeast. Camp Rotary still exists to this day as a primitive camp, so check it out if you can. You are a lucky Scout if you have one of these patches.
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