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On Feb. 8, 1910, William D. Boyce brought to life the Boy Scouts of America. A Chicago publisher, Boyce had been lost in London when he asked a young boy for directions.
After leading Boyce through the fog the boy refiised to accept a tip explaining that he was a “Scout.” Inspired by what he had observed Boyce brought the idea of Scouting back to the United States.
Souting for boys was an idea conceived by Sir Robert Baden-Powell of England, a retired British Army Brigadier and hero of the Boar Wars. By the time it was organized in the United States in 1910 the movement already had spread to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Argentina, and Brazil. It would soon spread to Belgiun, Holland, France, Sweden, Germany, and Russia.
The Scout Law was universal to Scouting organizations, all created from the idea from which BadenPowell had begun his movement.
Requests were received for permission to translate the book “Scouting for Boys” into many foriegn languages. Interested solely in spreading the Scouting Movement with no interest in making money he charged a mere one guinea fee to legalize the translations.
By 1929 Baden-Powell would be Chief Scout of the World; worldwide membership had grown to more than two million Scouts. That year 30,000 of them from 42 nations would meet at Gil well Park in England for the first World Jamboree. Gilwell Park was to become the International Scouting Center.
Scouting came to the Shenandoah Valley before the current Shenandoah Area Council was chartered. Records show Scouting in Luray in 1913, Winchester in 1915, Front Royal in 1917 and, although no records are availible, an article in the July 31, 1941, Martinsburg Journal notes Scouting was celebrating its 30th Anniversary that fall in Martinsburg, West Virginia.
Scouting in Page, Warren, Rappahannock, Shenandoah, Frederick, Clark, counties and the City of Winchester as well as Jefferson, Berkeley, and Morgan counties of West Virginia make up our present day Shenandoah Area Council.
The annual budget approaches a half million dollars and serves nearly 5,000 youth.
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