Summer Camps

Camp Mueller

Camp Mueller is located on Akron-Peninsula Road in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park north of Cuyahoga Falls and was started by the Phillis Wheatley Association in 1939 as an interracial camp for inner-city children.

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A group of African American girls near a row of tents at Camp Mueller, ca. 1940 | National Park Service

Resources

Akron-Peninsula Rd, near Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio

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