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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use mdy dates Шаблон:Infobox WorldScouting The Atlanta Area Council is a local council of the Boy Scouts of America. It serves 13 northern Georgia counties: Carroll, Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Douglas, Fulton, Gwinnett, Haralson, Newton, Paulding, Pickens, and Rockdale.[1]

Organization

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Headquarters of the Atlanta Area Council, Boy Scouts of America

The council is divided into districts:

  • Appalachian Trail District
  • Button Gwinnett District
  • Foothills District
  • Hightower Trail District
  • Indian Springs District
  • Northern Ridge District
  • Phoenix District
  • Picketts Mill District
  • Silver Comet District
  • Soapstone Ridge District
  • Southwest Atlanta District
  • Southern Crescent District
  • Yellow River District

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."

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, 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. [2]

See also

References

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