The second event in a continuing series of guided tours into area locations seldom visited by the public will be offered on Saturday morning, June 27. This guided walk will be around the grounds of the old Camp Marlyn summer camp for girls (now Bluewater Farm) on Andover’s Bradley Lake.

The event, open to the public at no charge, will begin at 10:30 AM in the parking lot behind Town Hall in Andover Center. Car-pooling from the parking lot will take attendees to Bradley Lake. Advance reservations are not necessary.

Sponsored by the Andover Institute, an arm of the recently formed Andover Community Association, the event is part of a “Space Explorations” series designed to introduce attendees to area locations – both natural and man-made – that receive little public visitation. Future events will include visits to a local heron rookery and a little-known waterfall, and a walk through the old mills of nearby Franklin.

The Camp Marlyn visit will introduce attendees to the recently renovated main lodge, several of the original campers’ cabins (some repurposed for short-term summer rentals), and the outdoor chapel atop a nearby hill on the 236-acre property. Photographs and other memorabilia will be available for viewing in the lodge.

Camp Marlyn was established in”the 1930s” as a summer camp for girls, on property once known as the Fitzgerald Farm. It takes its name from combining the first three letters of its founder, Margaret Hoban, and the last three letters of the camp mother’s name, Evelyn Boynton. The property continued as a summer camp until 1995, when the lodge and some of the buildings were converted to year-round use and became the Owl’s Nest Conference Center. In 2005 the property was purchased by Deb Brower, who renamed it Bluewater Farm Lakeside Lodge and Cottages.