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  2. Scouting in West Virginia - Wikipedia

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    In 1930, the Kentucky-West Virginia Council (#626) was founded. It merged into the Logan-Boone-Mingo Area Council (#756) in 1934. It changed its name to the Cornstalk Council (#756) in 1953. It changed its name to the Chief Cornstalk Council (#756) in 1954. It merged into the Buckskin Council (#617) in 1990.

  3. Summit Bechtel Reserve - Wikipedia

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    The Summit Bechtel Family National Scout Reserve, often shortened as Summit Bechtel Reserve (SBR), located in Fayette and Raleigh counties, near Beckley, West Virginia, is one of four facilities managed by the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). The others are Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico, Northern Tier National High ...

  4. Buckskin Council - Wikipedia

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    Buckskin Council (#617) In 1919, the Charleston Council was formed and operated for around 10 years before being renamed the Charleston Area Council as it began to grow which was the name until 1949. In 1949, the council name was changed to Buckskin Council. In 1990, Chief Cornstalk Council (#756) was forced to merge with Buckskin due to ...

  5. Anne Bailey - Wikipedia

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    November 1825 (aged 82–83) Harrison, Ohio. Battles / wars. American Revolutionary War. Northwest Indian War. Anne Bailey (c. 1742 – November 22, 1825) was a British-born American story teller and frontier scout who served in the fights of the American Revolutionary War and the Northwest Indian War. Her single-person ride in search of an ...

  6. Jesse Hughes (frontiersman) - Wikipedia

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    Jesse Hughes (frontiersman) Jesse Hughes (c. 1750 – c. 1829) was a frontiersman, hunter, and scout who was an early settler in the western region of Virginia that became West Virginia and Kentucky. Hughes was noted for his hatred of Native Americans, and is said to have killed many in battle, and murdered several others. [1] ".

  7. 24th World Scout Jamboree - Wikipedia

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    The 24th World Scout Jamboree [a] (Spanish: 24º Jamboree Scout Mundial, French: 24e Jamboree Scout Mondial) was held at the Summit Bechtel Family National Scout Reserve in West Virginia from 22 July to 2 August 2019. [1][2] The hosting duties were split between the Boy Scouts of America, Scouts Canada, and Asociación de Scouts de México. [3]

  8. West Virginia in the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    Views in and Around Martinsburg, Virginia by A. R. Waud (Harper's Weekly, December 3, 1864) The U.S. state of West Virginia was formed out of western Virginia and added to the Union as a direct result of the American Civil War (see History of West Virginia), in which it became the only modern state to have declared its independence from the ...

  9. Blazer's Scouts - Wikipedia

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    Blazer's Scouts. Blazer's Scouts was a Scout Dragoon unit of the Union Army during the second half of the American Civil War. They were particularly active in tracking down and confronting Confederate States Army partisans and guerrillas in West Virginia and Virginia; especially those of Colonel John S. Mosby. They specialized in anti-guerrilla ...