Meeting Place Traditional Cache
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This quick find at the Greeting Shack for Cub scouts. BYOP, placed
in honor of 100 years of scouting and my first Scout camp. This
cache is in the parking lot and the gate is seldom shut, if shut it
should not be a problem to enter just for the cache and to leave.
Remember to obey all postings.
This camp was a Boy Scout Camp but became a Cub Scout camp a few
years ago. It is soon to become a Boy / Cub Scout camp and the Boys
will take up the western side of the 950 acres. The food at this
camp is awesome, and the skeeters are huge! My dad says there are
not many Cub scout camps in America so we are lucky to have this
one. If you travel Finch Road further east of the cache toward lake
you with see the Finch Boy Scout Lodge. John A. Finch Boy Scout
Lodge - Diamond Lake, Pend Oreille Co. 
In 1920, the Boy Scouts of America established Camp Cowles
overlooking Diamond Lake on 80 prime waterfront acres donated by
William Cowles, publisher of Spokane’s daily newspaper, The
Spokesman-Review. Three years later, Spokane mining magnate John A.
Finch provided funding for construction of the lodge to serve as a
dining hall and camp headquarters. Noted architect Julius Zittel
from the Spokane firm of Zittel & Preusse drew up the plans,
employing a rustic Craftsman design appropriate to the
lodge’s role as a center for Scouting activities. The
lodge’s rustic style is unique among Zittel’s work that
includes buildings on the campuses of Eastern Washington University
and Gonzaga University, Idaho’s Kootenai County Courthouse
and several Spokane churches. Although the substantial building has
witnessed some alterations over the years, the lodge retains its
original massing and form, and much of the interior remains intact.
This includes a balcony with a Gothic-styled wooden railing running
around the upper story of the main hall and a massive stone
fireplace standing at each end. The Inland Northwest Council still
uses the lodge, the oldest known architect-designed Boy Scout Lodge
west of the Mississippi, and makes it available to the public for
rental for weddings, celebrations, and community events of all
types.
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