The Joseph Horne Company, often referred to as Joseph Horne's or simply Horne's, was an iconic department store based in Pittsburgh which was founded in 1849. After a long run, the chain was purchased in 1994 and the named was changed to Lazurus. Several Lazurus stores were then closed in 1998. In 2006, those remaining Lazurus just became Lazurus-Macy's. In 2006, those stores, joined with Kaufmann's, consolidated into Macy's.
Camp Horne was the dream of Albert Burchfield, a manager at Horne's and son of one of its founders. Opened in the summer of 1910, adult employees at Horne's set up a summer camp where "juniors", teenagers who worked as errand boys and package wrappers) could spend a week away from the smoky city and camp in the outdoors. They slept in tents, played baseball, swam, hiked in the woods, and in the evenings danced in the pavilion or were entertained by the adult employees of Horne's.
Camp Horne proved so attractive that everyone wanted to stay there. By the 1920's, anyone who was a Horne's employee could register to stay at the camp for a small fee. The company ran a bus during the summer so employees could leave directly from the store, stay at the camp overnight, and return to work the next morning. The campgrounds featured large canvas tents on wood platforms with metal beds and wardrobes for clothes. A fully equipped kitchen and staff fed 150 people at a time. By the mid-1920's, the camp had grown to become a small village with its own streets.
Camp Horne's use diminished with the Great Depression, but it remained the venue for the store's annual picnic through the 1940's and it became so well known in the area that the original name of the road in front of it was changed from Lowries Run to Camp Horne Road. Both the camp and department store are gone, but the setting lives on as Avonworth Community Park.
A curious fact is that officially, Camp Horne Road is named Horne Camp Road by the Allegheny County Public Works Department. The county court approved the name Horne Camp Road as the official name many years ago. You may have even seen the sign on the Route 65 end of the road that states as such. However, on the Lowries Run end of the road near Mt. Nebo Pointe, the road is called Camp Horne Road. Local jurisdictions have ignored the official county name, which is fine by me. I think it adds character and makes for an interesting debate.
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