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Scouting in New York has a long history, from the 1910s to the present day, serving thousands of youth in programs that suit the environment in which they live. The first National Boy Scouts of America (BSA) Headquarters was in New York City, and the Girl Scouts of the USA National Headquarters is currently located at 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
The program of the Girl Scouts of the USA is administered through local councils. Each council covers a geographic area of the United States , that may vary in size from a single U.S. county to multiple U.S. states .
Founded in 1924; the oldest continually operating Boy Scout camp west of the Mississippi River. [49] Camp Dan Sayre: Heart of America Council: Noel, MO: Closed: Operated between 1922 and 1929. [50] Camp Famous Eagle: Greater St. Louis Area Council: Knob Lick, MO: Active: One of four camps at S – F Scout Ranch; dining hall-style. Camp Gamble
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 ...
The site of Camp Andrée Clark was donated in 1920 by former Senator and Mrs. William A. Clark in memory of their daughter, Louise Amelia Andrée Clark, who had been an enthusiastic Girl Scout until her death from meningitis one week before her 17th birthday in 1919. The camp opened two years later, in 1921, as a national camp.
Richmond Plantation, also known as Girl Scout Plantation, is a national historic district located near Cordesville, Berkeley County, South Carolina.It was built about 1927, and includes a manor house and outbuildings constructed as a hunting lodge for George A. Ellis, a prominent New York financier and co-founder of E. F. Hutton & Co.
Circle Ten Council is a Boy Scouts of America (BSA) chartered council in central north Texas and a portion of Oklahoma.It encompasses all or parts of: Camp, Collin, Dallas, Delta, Ellis, Fannin, Franklin, Grayson, Henderson, Hopkins, Hunt, Kaufman, Lamar, Morris, Navarro, Rains, Red River, Rockwall, Titus, and Van Zandt counties in Texas as well as Bryan, Choctaw, McCurtain, and Pushmataha ...
To design the cabins at Rapidan Camp, Lou Henry Hoover hired an architect who had built Girl Scout camps. [55] The facilities were rustic by modern standards. Some of the early structures such as the original Five Tents had just a wooden floor and 3-foot-high (0.91 m) walls, with canvas tents above. [15]