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Moose Trivia Page 3

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[41] In 1967, the Women of the Moose built the wading pool in Baby Village.

[42] New York Hall was built in 1929. It was the last hall to be built on the girls campus until 1993. The New York State Moose Association raised the money to renovate the hall in 1992.

[43] The cabin by the Mooseheart Lake was built in 1975. The Moose Legion sponsored the building of the cabin on the exact site of the original cabin, which was built by the Mooseheart Boy Scouts in 1920.

[44] The Campanile was built in 1922, in honor of James J. Davis. The word Campanile is a French word meaning "bell tower". People were permitted to climb to the top of the tower to view the beautiful Mooseheart Campus until the late 1950's.

[45] The home which is now Father Heraty's residence, was originally built for the physician who lived on campus until the early 1950's.

[46] Ontario Hall was built in 1961 to accommodate 24 boys. The next hall built on the Mooseheart campus was the new West Virginia Hall, in 1991.

[47] The Texas building was built in 1978, to house the Moose Legions fire truck and the Mooseheart buses.

[48] In 1920, 130 disabled soldiers were rehabilitated at Mooseheart. They lived on the second floor of the dairy barn.

[49] Malcolm R. Giles High School was built in 1954. It was named after Malcolm R. Giles, who was Director General from 1947 thru 1954.

[50] Mooseheart was the location of the first town in Kane County. It was 1818 when four Frenchmen, employed by the Hudson Bay Fur Trading Company, had a trading post here. The town was named Clybourville and was at he mouth of the Mill Creek.

[51] The Industrial Building was built in 1915 and is located just west of the Power Plant. It is a three story building and has always been used for Vocational classes. The machine shop was on the first floor and is still there today.

[52] The Silo, that stood where the Campanile is, was the largest in the world at the time it was built. It was 92' high and 16' in diameter and 50' in circumference. It took 43 pounds of dynamite to bring it down on November 4, 1921.

[53] Mooseheart no longer had to cut their ice from Mooseheart Lake and store it in the ice house. An ice plant was installed in the south basement of the Roosevelt Memorial Auditorium in 1919.

[54] In the 1920's, Lincoln Hall was a children's residence. Later John Williams, the famous Illinois High School Hall of Fame Football Coach, lived in Lincoln Hall for many years. His family moved to Botavia, Illinois and the building was demolished. Botavia Moose Lodge Officers decided to buy the property for their Batavia Moose Lodge No. 682 builing in 1957.

[55] The State Row Halls were built in 1918 and 1919. These halls are West Virginia, New Jersy, Michigan, Wisconsin and Dixie.

[56] Robert Apple, Mooseheart graduate from the class of 1934, sponsored by Illinois Lodge No. 726, went down with the "Arizona" December 7, 1941 at Pearl Harbor. Ray Cosby, Class of 1940, sponsored by Clinton, Indiana, Lodge No. 1501 was one of the few men that escaped the sinking of the Arizona and live to tell about the disaster.

[57] Aid Hall was built around the 1840's, twenty years before Abraham Lincoln became President. In 1913, this was the first building where our Mooseheart children lived. It was their home, school, and hospital. By 1946 it was no longer safe for Mooseheart to use the building and it was destroyed.

[58] Minnesota Hall was erected in 1915 and was known as Purity Hall.

[59] Wisdom Hall was erected in 1916. In 1968 the hall was renamed Kentucky Hall.

[60] Baltimore Hall was built in 1929. Erie Hall was erected in 1923. Indiana Hall was built in 1920.

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