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Over time the Springfield Girl Scouts Became the Pioneer Valley Girl Scouts with Chicopee, Agawam, East Longmeadow, Longmeadow, Hampton, Monson, Wilberham, Palmer, Ware, Belchertown and Ludlow troops. In 1960, the camp was run by the Pioneer Valley Girl Scout Council, Inc. Girls went on Quests and got special badges. Here is an example of a ...
It was built from 243 acres of land, lakes, and buildings, purchased from private land, [3] [4] and named for Julia Cobb Crowell (1877–1957), a Cleveland civic leader and Girl Scout commissioner in the 1920s. [5] The land for Camp Crowell came was accumulated by James B. Kirby and sold to the Cleveland Girl Scout Council in 1937. [1] It was a ...
The Lodge fireplace, decorated for the 85th Anniversary of Camp in 2005. Camp Archbald is a Girl Scout camp in Brooklyn Township, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. [1] It encompasses 230 acres (0.93 km 2), including a 45-acre (180,000 m 2) lake (Lake Ely [2]). Established in 1920, it is the second oldest Girl Scout camp in America.
California incense cedar (Calocedrus decurrens) in the San Jacinto Mountains.Camp Joe Scherman (often abbreviated Camp Scherman) is a 700-acre (2.8 km 2) camping and recreation facility owned and operated by the Girl Scout Council of Orange County (GSCOC) located off the Pines to Palms Highway in Riverside County in Southern California.
The camp opened two years later, in 1921, as a national camp. In 1937, an international camp was held at Camp Andrée Clark to celebrate the Silver Jubilee of GSUSA. Girls from 26 countries attended. [3] The First Juliette Low Western Hemisphere Encampment was held August 14–28, 1940 at Camp Andrée Clark. Thirteen countries and colonies from ...
Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts serves more than 19,000 girls and 11,000 adults in 177 Massachusetts communities and South Hampton, New Hampshire. It was formed February 1, 2008 by a merger of three councils: Girl Scouts, Patriots' Trail; Girl Scout Council of Southeastern Massachusetts; Girl Scouts of Spar and Spindle Council.
A Girl Guide or Girl Scout is a member of a section of some Guiding organisations who is between the ages of 10 and 14. Age limits are different in each organisation. Robert Baden-Powell chose to name his organization for girls "the Girl Guides". In the United States and several East Asian countries the term "Girl Scout" is used instead.
Established in the Berkshire Mountains in 1919 by the Springfield Girl Scout Council, the 200 acres (81 ha) Camp Bonnie Brae is today, the oldest continuously operated camp of the GSUSA. It is located on the northeast shore of Big Pond in East Otis, Massachusetts. [11] It is currently operated by the Girl Scouts of Central and Western ...