A Guide to the Roanoke Area Scouting History Collection

A Guide to the Roanoke Area Scouting History Collection

This is a guide to the Roanoke Area Scouting History Collection. This collection contains the papers and personal documents of several notable leaders in the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) from the Roanoke, Virginia area. The bulk of the collection extends from the 1930s to the 2000s.The collection contains information on awards, camps, menus, membership lists and member data, agendas and minutes of meetings, newsletters, various versions of official records, correspondence, financial records, and unofficial and personal documents. There are lists of attendees at camps and various events sponsored by the Roanoke-Area and Blue Ridge Mountain Councils of the Boy Scouts of America, as well as examples of the brochures and promotional literature for these camps, events and institutes, and the planning processes that went into holding them. Committee records, programs, clippings and newsletters are included, as are photographs, a few videotapes and a digital video disk. The collection provides an overview of scouting in the Roanoke area and the Blue Ridge Mountains for over eighty years, from the 1920s into the 2010s.

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