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AINSWORTH SPRINGS
AINSWORTH SPRINGS. In 1906 officials of the local [[YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION (Y.M.C.A) had for several years owned a cabin at Ainsworth Springs, the site of an annual camping trip. Each boy was to take a knife, fork, two spoons, one plate, cup and saucer, glass, oil or rubber blanket to put under ticking, one empty ticking for each two boys two pair of socks, one pair of tennis slippers, one extra suit of light weight underwear, one suit of heavy underwear for cold nifhrs, one extra wood shirt, one extra outing shirt, one extra pair of pants, an estra coat and two dark blankets. (1)
A popular camping site north of Dubuque, Ainsworth Springs was put up for sale on May 7, 1910 on the steps of the [[DUBUQUE COUNTY COURTHOUSE]. (2)
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Source:
1. "Camp Life for Young America," Dubuque Telegraph-Herald, August 5, 1906, p. 3
1. "City in Brief," Dubuque Telegraph-Herald, May 1, 1910, p. 4