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Josephine Amanda Groves Holloway (March 10, 1898 – December 7, 1988) was an American woman who broke the color barrier for African-American girls to become involved in scouting in the state of Tennessee. In 1933 she began organizing unofficial scout groups, which were recognized in 1942, and eventually desegregated.
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
2012: $4 per Box. The Girl Scouts of Minnesota and Wisconsin River Valleys announced in July 2012 that they would be selling Girl Scout cookies for $4 per box, the Star Tribune reported.
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.
Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta serves about 42,000 girls and 17,000 adult volunteers in 34 counties of Greater Atlanta and a portion of Polk County Tennessee. It was formed in 2008 by the merger of Girl Scout Council of Northwest Georgia and Girl Scouts of Pine Valley Council.
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 ...
The Nashville Area Council was renamed the Middle Tennessee Council in 1949. [1] [2] In 1921, the Middle Tennessee Council's first summer camp was held at the original Boxwell Reservation, near Linton and is now lost to history. [clarification needed] Nine years later, camp was held at a facility called as the Narrows of the Harpeth. In the ...