Early Scout Encampment at Quantico Marine Base

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When Orange Boy Scout Troop No. 1 Invaded the Lincoln Memorial

I recently came across an interesting mention of Orange Boy Scout Troop No. 1 (now Troop 14) in a copy of the Marine Corps Gazette magazine (Vol X, No.3, Dec. 1925:192-193) that mentioned an otherwise unknown (at least to me) encampment of Orange Boy Scouts. The article describes Marine Corps Boy Scout summer camps and provides details from when Troop 1 from Orange, Va. attended the camp from August 29 to September 6, 1925. ...read more