AN ACCOUNT OF THE EAGLE’S NEST CAMP BY Elizabeth Dickerson Palmer
Elizabeth Dickerson Palmer was the daughter of James Spencer Dickerson, one of the original colonists of the Eagle’s Nest Camp. Mr. Dickerson originated the idea for the camp and made the contract between Mr. Heckman and the artists’ group. The Dickerson children came to Eagle’s Next Camp first during the summer 1898, and spent all of their childhood summers here. Elizabeth Dickerson married Harry Palmer, who owned and operated a structural steel company in St. Paul, Minnesota. These memoirs were received in unpublished form from W.P. Dickerson, Mrs. Palmer’s brother, who presently lives just a few miles north of the Field Campus on the Rock River. Mrs. Palmer died in 1952.
Lorado Taft Field Campus Branch Campus, NIU February, 1958