As anyone who has been to Boxwell knows, Boxwell Reservation at Old Hickory Lake in Lebanon, TN is actually the fourth Boxwell. The first was in Linden, TN. The second at Narrows of the Harpeth. The third was at Rock Island (what is now Charles E. Parrish Wildlife Preserve) in McMinnville. The present Boxwell at Old Hickory Lake opened in 1960 and has been Middle Tennessee Council's main camp for the last forty plus years.

Of course, being the fourth camp, the present Boxwell has undergone a great deal of renovation and change. When Boxwell opened in 1960, it had two working Scout resident camps - Camp Parnell and Camp Stahlman - and a family camp, Camp Murrey. Camp Light was a wilderness camp. In 1973, Camp Craig was built and in 1985, COPE was added to Camp Light.

This does not begin to cover the multiple renovations that Boxwell experience over the years. Take a moment to choose a link below and explore how the camp's physical facilities have changed. Start with Rock Island to get an idea of what Scout Camp was like in the 1940s and 1950s and then go to Boxwell at Old Hickory to see how the present camp has changed.