CARNATION, Wash. -- Almost 100 years after E.A. Stuart made his cows at the Carnation Dairy Farm famous, a local man is breathing new life into it and hopes to make it famous for a whole new generation.

It certainly is a majestic piece of property at more than 800 acres of rolling land, plus barns, stables and kennels, a swimming pool, and majestic homes built back in 1914 and 1923.

In recent years, the Nestle Company ran it as a training center and many Microsofties have been on the property for corporate meetings and retreats.

But now, instead of laptops and cell phones, you'll find hand painted posters and small lunch bags, individually designed by its current users, to serve as their mail slots.

This property is now filled with the giggles and excitement of youth, and not just any kids, but young ones with life altering medical conditions.

This is now Camp Korey, named for Korey Rose. His dad Tim founded it after Korey died several years ago.

Just 18, Korey spent the last couple years of his young life in and out of Children's Hospital fighting a bone cancer.

"He was a very outgoing young man, even up to the very night before he died, he teased the doctors and the nurses," Tim Rose said.

After seeing so many children and their families go through such with medical treatments, Tim decided to create Camp Korey to give kids fighting medical conditions a chance to just be kids.

In touring the grounds, Tim proudly points out all of its wonderful features:

"This is just a little game room this was an old carriage house," Tim said.

Camp Korey only closed on this piece of property four weeks ago. Last week, they built 64 sets of bunk beds and this week welcomed 32 campers.

They quickly turned the house built in 1923 for Stuart's son into a medical center, staffed with volunteer doctors and nurses.

Joan Beade is a full time neo-natal intensive care nurse who took time off work to come help out.

"Having a place for kids who are medically challenged, to come and just be kids, is such a tremendous thing and I've just always felt it would be really fun to be involved with that," Beade said.

Not only is Joan volunteering this week, but her quilting group also created a number of the quilts given to the campers this week. Each camper gets a quilt when they arrive for their week and they get to take it home with them.

And just in the last couple of days, they turned a rustic barn into play areas for the kids. They installed a climbing wall that was a huge hit with the kids, and they installed a basketball court, perfectly sized for Camp Korey campers.

The entire farm is steeped in history and while they created new spaces, like the play areas for the kids, they are certainly keeping the more traditional things around too, like the original manor house, built in 1914.

It has a huge old stone fireplace, original windows and eight bedrooms.

"Right now we've got a couple of the doctors that are helping us out, that are staying in it," Tim Rose said.

And there's more than just the architecture to preserve.

"We really want to keep the theme of agriculture," he said.

They're still growing and bailing up the alfalfa on the property and selling it. And they've got a large, several-acre organic garden with 50 vegetables.

"And we're taking over some of the kids in the morning and they're picking the vegetables that we eat at lunch and for dinner," Tim Rose said.

Tim's future goals are lofty: He wants to build about 10 cabins here by next year so they can house 120 campers per week for 10 weeks next summer.

"Primarily, we're going to service all 5 states of the Pacific Northwest and work with all the local hospitals and the communities," Tim Rose said.

Tim has tried to spend as much time as could at camp this week, balancing that out with his job at Costco. He said he knows his son Korey would have loved it here.

"He loved kids, he loved to tease, he loved to be outside, so he would absolutely have loved it here," he said. "I do too. It's infectious."

Tim's other goal that he's almost completed, is becoming an associate camp with Paul Newman's Hole In The Wall Camps. That group has 10 camps around the world that serve 10,000 kids.

Camp Korey is on track to join that association by next year.

Camp Korey does not receive any funding, other than through donations.

For information on Camp Korey, go to www.campkorey.org