The Atlanta Area Council is a local council of

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. It serves 13 northern Georgia counties: Carroll, Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Douglas, Fulton, Gwinnett, Haralson, Newton, Paulding, Pickens, and Rockdale.

Organization

Headquarters of the Atlanta Area Council BSA

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

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* Robert W. Woodruff Scout Camp * Allatoona Aquatics Base

Order of the Arrow

Egwa Tawa Dee Lodge is the

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lodge Lodge is originally a term for a relatively small building, often associated with a larger one. Lodge or The Lodge may refer to: Buildings and structures Types * Lodge, a dwelling for a beaver, an aquatic mammal * Lodge, a building for t ...

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

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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" to aid in pronunciation. The lodge is divided into 12 chapters. 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 and collegiate OA chapters at the Georgia Institute of Technology and at Southern Polytechnic State University (now the Marietta Campus of Kennesaw State University). https://aacegwa.org/lodge-lodge-history/

References

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Organization

History

Camps

Order of the Arrow

See also

References