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Local councils of the Boy Scouts of America The Ideal Scout, a statue by R. Tait McKenzie in front of the Bruce S. Marks Scout Resource Center, the former headquarters of the Cradle of Liberty Council in Philadelphia Scouting portal The program of the Boy Scouts of America is administered through 248 local councils, with each council covering a geographic area that may vary from a single city ...
Boy Scout Foundation of GNY 719 719: Greater New York Council: New York: New York: 1936: 1967: Greater New York 640 380: Greater Niagara Frontier Council: Buffalo: New York: 2023: Merged with Iroquois Trail Council: Western New York 380 527: Greater Pittsburgh Council: Pittsburgh: Pennsylvania: 1993: 2011: Merged with Penn's Woods 508: Laurel ...
By re-organizing into a new "Boy Scout Club" (Troop #1 in the United States) these Scouts learned first aid, new outdoor skills and being helpful to others. "Billy" Milne went back to his native Scotland and brought back the books and materials he needed along with a British Charter. By 1910, Barre's Troop #1 joined the Boy Scouts of America. [43]
All Boy Scouts of America units are owned and operated by chartered organizations. Of the 42,822 units (Boy Scout troops, Cub Scout packs and Venturing crews) and 1,670,028 youth members in 2010: 65% of all youth members are chartered to faith-based organizations; 23.5% of all youth members are chartered to civic organizations
The last Boy Scout troop did not officially integrate until 1974, 20 years after the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that racially segregated schools were unconstitutional.
The Boy Scouts did not track the race of scouts who earned the rank of Eagle. For many years it was thought that Edgar Cunningham , who earned his rank in 1926 as a member of Troop 12 in Waterloo, Iowa in what was then Wapsipinicon Area Council , was the first black recipient of the Eagle rank.
Located a half-hour east of Payson, the ranch is available to Boy Scout troops and Cub Scout packs for camping. [6] Raymond Scout Reservation: Grand Canyon Council: Parks: Active: Located 30 miles outside of Flagstaff, Arizona, between the Kaibab National Forest and the Coconino National Forest, along the rim of Sycamore Canyon.
This category is intended for council-level and lower articles about the Boy Scouts of America. For BSA national level camps, see Category:National camps of the Boy Scouts of America. Please refer to WP:S-BSA for project guidelines on notability and layout for BSA articles at the council level and below.