Celebrating 70 Years! Cedar Lakes Conference Center is celebrating its 70th birthday in 2025! Throughout the year, the Cedar Lakes Foundation will be sharing photos and information about the rich and varied history of this Jackson County and West Virginia treasure. If you have memories or photos to share, email [email protected]. Just when and where the idea of a camp for Future Farmers of America and Future Homemakers had its origin is not recorded. But we do know is that on November 16, 1934, a committee of vocational agricultural teachers and Future Farmers of America members was appointed to make a study of available sites for a permanent FFA camp. Proposed sites in Clay and Braxton counties were inspected. It was the opinion of the committee that other suitable and available sites in other sections of the state should be inspected. In the spring of 1946, the Vo-ag teachers named a committee to work on a permanent site for the FFA-FHA camp.  A bill relating to the establishment and operation of a state camp and conference center for the FFA and FHA was introduced in the WV House of Delegates.  This bill was passed on February 16, 1949, and signed into law by Governor Patterson on March 3, 1949, and on March 5, 1949, the West Virginia FFA-FHA Foundation was established and incorporated.

In the picture below is Governor Patterson signing into law the bill to create the establishment and operation of a state camp and conference center for FFA and FHA. Present with the Governor are Fred Butler and Mary Ann Fox.