Atlanta Area Council

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Atlanta Area Council (#092)
Atlanta Area Council office.jpg
Owner Scouting America
Headquarters1800 Circle 75 Parkway, SE Atlanta, GA 30339
CountryUnited States
Founded1916;109 years ago (1916)
Membership30,000 youth est.
PresidentJoseph Blanco
Council CommissionerLouis Todd
Scout ExecutiveTracy Techau
Website
www.scoutingatl.org
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The Atlanta Area Council is a local council of Scouting America. It serves 13 northern Georgia counties: Carroll, Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Douglas, Fulton, Gwinnett, Haralson, Newton, Paulding, Pickens, and Rockdale. [1]

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Organization

Headquarters of the Atlanta Area Council, Scouting America Headquarters of the Atlanta Area Council BSA.jpg
Headquarters of the Atlanta Area Council, Scouting America

The council is divided into districts:

History

The council was known as the Atlanta Council from 1915 to 1939, and as the Polaris Council in the 1950s.

Camps

Order of the Arrow

Egwa Tawa Dee Lodge is the Order of the Arrow lodge that serves the Atlanta Area Council. It was chartered in 1938 as Broad-Winged-Hawk #129. Egwa Tawa Dee is translated from "equa tawadi", the Cherokee language for the lodge's totem, the broad-winged hawk whose literal translation is "big hawk"; for ease of pronunciation, it was spelled out as "Egwa Tawa Dee" to aid in pronunciation.

The lodge is divided into 12 chapters. Current chapters include Achewon Woapalanne, Echota, Etowah, Kennesaw, Nagatamen, Lowanne Nimat, Osten Nokose, Silepl Ilaonëtu, Tella Qualla Boundary, Thennethlofkee, Wesadicha and Wvhvlv en Hvresse. Past chapters include Awi-uska, Sagahattee, and South Fulton and collegiate OA chapters at the Georgia Institute of Technology and at Southern Polytechnic State University (now the Marietta Campus of Kennesaw State University). [2]

See also

References

  1. "Districts". Archived from the original on November 8, 2018. Retrieved November 8, 2018.
  2. https://aacegwa.org/lodge-lodge-history/ [ bare URL ]