Atlanta Area Council
| Atlanta Area Council | |||
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| Owner | Boy Scouts of America | ||
| Headquarters |
1800 Circle 75 Parkway, SE Atlanta, GA 30339 |
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| Country | United States | ||
| Membership | 30,000 youth est. | ||
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| Website http://www.atlantabsa.org |
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The Atlanta Area Council is a local council of the Boy Scouts of America, serving 13 counties in northern Georgia. The counties are Carroll, Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Douglas, Fulton, Gwinnett, Haralson, Newton, Paulding, Pickens, and Rockdale.[1]
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Organization [edit]
The council is divided into districts:
- Button Gwinnett District
- Chattahoochee District
- Cherokee Pickens District
- Covered Bridge District
- East Atlanta District
- Foothills District
- High Tower Trail District
- Milton District
- Mountain Lake District
- North Atlanta District
- Pickett's Mill District
- Soapstone Ridge District
- South Atlanta District
- South Fulton District
- Sweetwater District
- Tara District
- Three Rivers District
- West Atlanta District
- Yellow River District
History [edit]
Formerly known as the Atlanta Council from 1915 to 1939, and as the Polaris Council in the 1950s.
Camps [edit]
- Bert Adams Scout Reservation
- Robert W. Woodruff Scout Reservation
- Camp Allatoona Aquatics Base
Order of the Arrow [edit]
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 to whose literal translation is "big hawk" and for ease of pronunciation it was spelled out as "Egwa Tawa Dee."
The lodge was chartered in 1938 as Broad-Winged-Hawk No. 129 is divided into 16 chapters, as well as Collegiate OA chapters at the Georgia Institute of Technology and at Southern Polytechnic State University. Current chapters include: Achewon Woapalanne, Creek, Cvmpe Vekiwv, Echota, Etowah, Kennesaw, QuiNiGiSi, Lockchau Talofau, Lowanne Nimat, Nagatamen, Seven Springs, Soquili Gvnagei, Tella Qualla Boundary, Thennethlofkee, Wachtschu Chuppecat, and Wesadicha. Past chapters include: Awi-uska, Sagahattee, and South Fulton.
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