Member Boynton Camp No. 46 Boynton Fl.?

diggummup · May 13, 2017

Recent estate find. Any ideas what Boynton Camp refers to? The town of Boynton Beach Fl. has not been called just plain "Boynton" since 1941. Other than that I know nothing about it. Trying to figure out the significance of this old Badge. Anyone?

diggummup · May 15, 2017

DCMatt · May 15, 2017

To my eye, that badge has "Fraternal Order" all over it...

Isn't there a fraternal order that refers to their local oganizations as "camps"?

I've never seen a fastener like that. Looks like it could be a pin or a tie bar. Pretty cool.

taz42o · May 15, 2017

Since it has two pins, it must have had a ribbon attached.
Like this one...

DCMatt · May 15, 2017

Major Nathan S. Boynton, founder of Boynton Beach also founded the Knights of the Maccabees. Maybe a clue?

DCMatt · May 15, 2017

Thanks Taz! That makes more sense.

Here's a 1908 FOE medal with the same shape pin at the top.

DCMatt · May 15, 2017

1899 Odd Fellows:

Mackaydon · May 15, 2017

DCM,
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Don......[/FONT]

Oddjob · May 15, 2017

Never heard of the group; however I have seen these catch all tags before. Back in the 80s in Texas all the Stock Show commissioners would have them on with ribbon and or medal under it. Old Grand Champion winner tags looked the same as well, but also Calf Scramble ribbons. Texas Cattleman Association executive members got these too.

I have had one for my four years as Sentinel in the FFA, Officer district and State meetings you needed to wear them

Won a couple in Calf Scrambles as a young child.

Had one on a Belgium Blue Grand Champion. With porcelain coating on plate.

Had one on a Black Angus Grand Champion. With Porcelain coating on plate.

Father and uncles where all executives under the Texas Cattleman Association.

Father and 4 uncles where Stock Show Commissioners.

Had a cousin in La Grange part of the Historical society (what a joke) that had one.

100% total catch all badge before they started tin stamping; but finding the group that it belong to is the tricky part.

I would start with their Historical Society, it is not all that old but still founded early enough that you may get lucky.

Mackaydon · May 15, 2017

For what it's worth........there was also a satellite Camp Boynton assembled at the Chickamauga Battlefield Encampment during the Spanish-American War (1898).
Don.....

nhbenz · May 15, 2017

In a quick search I find that the Sons of Union Veterans and the Modern Woodmen used camp numbers.

DCMatt · May 15, 2017

nhbenz said:
In a quick search I find that the Sons of Union Veterans and the Modern Woodmen used camp numbers.

Interesting. Major Boynton was a Union veteran.

diggummup · May 16, 2017

Oddjob said:
Never heard of the group; however I have seen these catch all tags before. Back in the 80s in Texas all the Stock Show commissioners would have them on with ribbon and or medal under it. Old Grand Champion winner tags looked the same as well, but also Calf Scramble ribbons. Texas Cattleman Association executive members got these too.

I have had one for my four years as Sentinel in the FFA, Officer district and State meetings you needed to wear them

Won a couple in Calf Scrambles as a young child.

Had one on a Belgium Blue Grand Champion. With porcelain coating on plate.

Had one on a Black Angus Grand Champion. With Porcelain coating on plate.

Father and uncles where all executives under the Texas Cattleman Association.

Father and 4 uncles where Stock Show Commissioners.

Had a cousin in La Grange part of the Historical society (what a joke) that had one.

100% total catch all badge before they started tin stamping; but finding the group that it belong to is the tricky part.

I would start with their Historical Society, it is not all that old but still founded early enough that you may get lucky.

I did send an email to the historical society. I do think this is an old piece as shown above in a couple dated examples. Lots of research to do when I get home tonight.

Thanks for the replies thus far from everyone.

Oddjob · May 16, 2017

diggummup said:
I did send an email to the historical society. I do think this is an old piece as shown above in a couple dated examples. Lots of research to do when I get home tonight.

Thanks for the replies thus far from everyone.

I bet it is old too, one thing that really sticks out that I never noticed on the ones I have earned or seen is the retaining ears for the beauty ring.

Last I saw mine was in the late 90s but I am certain mine did not have those ears on them.

diggummup · May 16, 2017

Maybe something related to WW2 or just before the war? In the 1930s, there was a tremendous growth of military establishments throughout Florida. Florida soon had 172 military installations, ranging from both extremely large to relatively small camps. Two of the larger complexes were Camp Blanding, established near Starke, and the Jacksonville Naval Air Station. By 1942, America's training facilities in Florida were heavily overcrowded. This led to the military taking over many hotel facilities. Among the hotels used were the Don Cesar in St. Petersburg, the Hollywood Beach Hotel, The Breakers in Fort Lauderdale, the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables, and several hundred other hotels and motels throughout Florida. Some of the places were used for barracks and others were taken over as makeshift hospitals for injured military personnel sent home from overseas. https://fcit.usf.edu/florida/lessons/ww_ii/ww_ii1.htm I'm just trying to figure out something that would relate to a camp number that high in such a small town during that era.

Still nothing definitive yet, just more speculation.

Mackaydon · May 16, 2017

diggummup

The Mission Inn in Riverside, Ca. was another hotel used in WW II for servicemen who were either stationed or transiting through March Field (later, March Air Force Base-during my duty years '63-'69). In the Inn's chapel pilots would affix a set of their 'wings' to the wall with the understanding they would retrieve their wings after the war. Sadly,may of those wings were still on that wall during my service days--a grim, yet solemn reminder of the absurdity of war.
Don.......