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Posted: 28 Sep 2015

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Raise 'ell Camp, Cooks Mill, Pennsylvania

Raise 'ell Camp, Cooks Mill, Pennsylvania
Handwritten message on the back of this real photo postcard: "This was the name of our camp at Cooks Mill where we was the last ten days of August."

These seven campers have enough firepower--a couple of shotguns and a rifle--to "raise hell," as their sign suggests, but it's more likely they used their guns and rods for hunting and fishing (I'm not sure why the one woman is holding a tin horn, though).

Their camping trip, which took place during August sometime in the 1900s or 1910s, is documented in these three photos (the one above and two more below).

The location--Cooks Mill--was a small settlement in rural Bedford County, Pennsylvania, that was described in 1900 as having one store, a grist mill, and ten dwellings.

Eating Ice Cream at Raise 'ell Camp, Cooks Mill, Pennsylvania

Tents at Raise 'ell Camp, Cooks Mill, Pennsylvania

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