Pleasant Hill Farms was a vacation camp established in 1922 for young girls of the working class, located south of Coraopolis between Stoops Ferry and Glen Willard. Easily accessible by train, the camp was considered an "ideal" respite, nestled in the wooded hills with the "cool clear waters of the Flaugherty Creek running by."
The camp featured screened-in porches for sleeping in the warm summer air, and an ad that ran in the Pittsburgh Gazette Times on April 30, 1926 promised occupants running water and electric lights.
The camp, which ran from the beginning of June to the beginning of October every year, was highly popular; it was visited by more than 1000 girls every summer. Girls were accepted to the camp based on references submitted to the YWCA on Chatham Street in Pittsburgh. When the camp closed its doors in 1946, the assets were transferred to The Pittsburgh Foundation and this fund was established.
The fund supports the promotion of organizations that offer summer camps for girls and young women.
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- Field of Interest