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The Juliette Gordon Low Historic District consists of three buildings in Savannah, Georgia, which are associated with the origins of the Girl Scouts of the USA.They are the birthplace of Juliette Gordon Low, at 10 East Oglethorpe Avenue, [3] the Andrew Low House, at 329 Abercorn Street, [4] and the Andrew Low Carriage House (also known as the First Girl Scout Headquarters), at 330 Drayton Street.
Juliette Gordon Low (née Gordon; October 31, 1860 – January 17, 1927) was the American founder of Girl Scouts of the USA.Inspired by the work of Robert Baden-Powell, founder of Scout Movement, she joined the Girl Guide movement in England, forming her own group of Girl Guides there in 1911.
The house served as the headquarters for the Girl Scouts until 1913. Low left the carriage house to the Savannah Area Girl Scout Council when she died in 1927; the Girl Scouts used the building until 1986. [2] The building was purchased by the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in Georgia in 1928, after Low died. The society uses ...
Saturday, March 12, is the official day the Girl Scouts were established in Savannah, Ga. A meeting in 1911 with Sir Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of Boy Scouts, inspired Juliette Gordon Low to ...
The Andrew Low House is a home in Savannah, Georgia, ... at 330 Drayton Street, served as the headquarters for the Girl Scouts until 1913. [2] Pictured around 1939 ...
Upon Low's death in 1927, she willed her carriage house, at 330 Drayton Street, which eventually became The Girl Scout First Headquarters, to the local Savannah Girl Scouts for continued use. [13] San Juan, Puerto Rico Girl Scouts Troop No. 54, (Year 1945)
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