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Forty-four campers attended Camp Nebagamon the first summer back in 1929. Muggs and Janet Lorber of St. Louis had purchased the 70-acre site a year earlier with the idea of providing a complete Northwoods experience for boys from throughout the country. Muggs had been a counselor at another camp in northern Wisconsin, and he sought a location close enough to canoe country in Minnesota so that Nebagamon campers could have genuine wilderness experiences. Muggs and Janet's daughter Sally and her husband Nardie Stein continued the Nebagamon tradition, and built up camp's program offerings, during their long tenure of directorship from 1960 through 1989. The talented team of Roger and Judy Wallenstein led Nebagamon from 1990 through 2003 before passing on the reins to Adam Kaplan and Stephanie Hanson, who have now become Nebagamon's fourth set of directors.
Nebagamon's campsite has a rich history and has been utilized over time by Native Americans, explorers, and trappers. At the end of the 19th Century, the Weyerhaeuser Lumber Company operated a mill on our property. The Weyerhaeuser family's summer home, which we call The Big House, now serves as our main lodge, and to this day many of our camp traditions date back to the lumberjack era. After the mill closed in 1907, a woolen company in Duluth used the land for an employee resort before the Lorbers founded Camp Nebagamon.
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