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In 1955, Camp Holloway was opened; as of 2016, it is still operational and open to all girl scouts. [4] Holloway was the first African-American employed by the Girl Scouts in Middle Tennessee. In the 1976 celebration of the US bicentennial, she was given the "Hidden Heroine" award. [4]
Camp Holloway is 76 acres (31 ha) in Millersville, Tennessee, and established in 1951 as a camp for "Negro girl scouts"; it now serves all girls. It is named for Josephine Holloway who founded the first official African-American Girl Scout troop in Nashville in 1942 (some 18 years after establishing one unofficially and 9 years after first ...
Property was donated to the local Boy Scout and Girl Scout councils with the Girl Scouts later ceding their half to the Ozark Trails Council, BSA. Frank Childress Scout Reservation: Ozark Trails Council: Diamond, MO: Sold: The property was sold to a non-profit founded by area scouts. H. Roe Bartle Scout Reservation: Heart of America Area Council
1938 saw Camp Pellissippi's first summer camp season; 75 Scouts attended with 600 in attendance the following year. Pellissppi Lodge 230 of the Order of the Arrow is named for the camp. In 1952 several Scout leaders including William Perry "Buck" Toms purchased a plot of property on the shores of Watts Bar Lake using proceeds from a Scout show.
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The Girl Scout National Center West was located just outside Ten Sleep, Wyoming, among the Big Horn Mountains, [1] near the entrance to Ten Sleep Canyon. [2] A portion of the center was one of the largest encampments in the world at 15,400 acres (62 km 2) (14,600 acres (59 km 2) also reported) of rugged wilderness near the entrance to Ten Sleep Canyon near the Bighorn National Forest.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Grundy County, Tennessee. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Grundy County, Tennessee, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and ...