About Us

Camp Fire has undergone changes over the years. The first group was started in 1919 - Tuckabatchee was its name. Camp Tuckabatchee was held in various places in the Catawba Island area - South Beach, Plymouth Shores on Sandusky Bay and even the YMCA camp in Bellevue. Then the group became known as the Fremont Council of Camp Fire Girls, then Buckeye Council of Camp Fire Girls, next Buckeye Council of CampFire (when boys were added to the membership, and now Camp Fire USA Buckeye Council.

In 1939, a place to call home, a 35-acre site on Lake Erie was purchased by the Rotary Club of Fremont for the Fremont Council of Camp Fire Girls. 4 prominent men, all Rotarians, led the move to puchase the propery. There were Harry Gottron Sr., Tubby Carrol, LaMar Christy and Stanly Wolfe. Grace Marie Sisson's contest entry - Camp Yukita - was chosen in an essay writing contest. Yu Ki Ta translated means "a settlement to grow and flourish in friendly alliance." The name adopted March 5, 1940.

The Rotary Club's hard work and financial backing paid high dividends when Camp Yukita needed to be sold because of nature's devastation, many years of wear and tear on buildings, wiring, shorelines and because of a change in public thinking regarding camping for kids. The equity built into Camp Yukita all those years, became the purchase and remodeling money for Misty Meadows in 1976.