Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Charlotte Mason was the first person to perceive the educational potential of Scouting applied to children. In April 1905, she added Aids to Scouting by Robert Baden-Powell to the syllabus of the Parents' Union School.
Founded in 1913, the Heart of Virginia Council, Boy Scouts of America, serves 1,400 youth in Central Virginia. The council offers training and support to units in 24 counties in the Tidewater and Piedmont regions of the state, an area spanning 8,143 square miles.
The council was formed in 1972, following the merger of the former Piedmont and Blue Ridge councils into one consolidated council serving 21 counties. [3] The Piedmont Council's headquarters had been in Lynchburg, Virginia, and after the merger the Blue Ridge Council's headquarters in Roanoke, Virginia, became the merged council's headquarters for its 13,562 members.
Virginia: 1925: 1929: Merged with Cherokee Area 559: Chief Benge-Cherokee 713 713: Chief Benge-Cherokee Council: Bristol: Virginia: 1929: 1931: Sequoyah 713 756: Chief Cornstalk Council: Logan: West Virginia: 1954: 1990: Buckskin 617 464: Chief Logan Council: Chillicothe: Ohio: 1944: 1994: Merged with Scioto 457 and Central Ohio 441: Simon ...
Tidewater Council is a local council of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). It serves the region of southeastern Virginia and north-eastern North Carolina.This region is often referred to as South Hampton Roads or the Tidewater or Tidewater Virginia area; hence the name of the council.
Three Boy Scouts of America resident summer camps, two Cub Scout resident camps, and one high adventure resident camp occupy the land purchased in 1960 by the National Capital Area Council that borders the Goshen and Little North Mountain Wildlife Management Area and Little Calfpasture River outside of Goshen, Virginia, for $300,000 that is now ...
The summer camp program provides opportunities for a range of merit badges in the areas of Scoutcraft, Handicraft, aquatics, nature, STEM, Timber Mountain, Trail-to-Eagle, and Shooting Sports. Other programs include hikes to Elliott Knob and a high adventure program. Scout leaders can take supplemental training in aquatics and boating safety ...
Henson Scout Reservation, also known as Camp Nanticoke, is an 1,800-acre (7.3 km 2) Scout camp located on the Delmarva Peninsula near Galestown, Maryland.One of two Scout camps on the peninsula, it serves thousands of Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts throughout the summer months, and is open year-round for special Scout programs and for rental by outside groups.