About

This web site is intended to document and share history relating to the Boy Scouts of America, its summer camps, and honor societies. Initially, the site is focusing on Scouting in Central and Southwest Virginia, which is the area currently served by the Blue Ridge Mountains Council #599 including the cities of Roanoke, Lynchburg, and Danville. Because a web site already exists that explores the history of the western half of the council, including Camp Powhatan (“History of the Blue Ridge Mountains Council“), this project will begin with the activities of the former Piedmont Area Council headquartered in Lynchburg, VA, which merged in 1972 with Roanoke’s Blue Ridge Council to form Blue Ridge Mountains Council.

ScoutingHistory.org is maintained by Scott Smith of Lynchburg, Virginia, who is an Eagle Scout and Vigil Honor member of Tutelo Lodge 161, Order of the Arrow. Scott is an active Scouting volunteer, and is part of a dedicated group on individuals documenting Scouting’s history at the local, statewide, and national level. In 2015, he authored the 313-page A History of Tutelo Lodge: Scouting’s Honor Society in Southwest and Central Virginia, 1939-2015 (Blackwell Press) and was a contributor to the Lodge History Resource Guide, which was published in 2017 by the Order of the Arrow.

This web site is independently and privately-operated, and is not affiliated with the Boy Scouts of America or its subsidiaries.