Camp Indianola

A large private boy’s camp that ran from 1910 until 1967. The camp was located along most of the lake frontage now part of Governor Nelson State Park. Frederick Mueller, an instructor in psychology at the university, initially ran the camp. Orson Wells attended the camp in 1925 when he was 10 and participated in dramatic productions. In 1967 a strong tornado struck the night after the last day of camp. Touching down near the camp’s shoreline, the tornado caused only minor damage to the camp but killed two women who lived nearby. The Woldenberg Family, who then owned the camp, never reopened it after this.