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Atlanta Area Council

Boy Scouts of America local council

Field	Value
name	Atlanta Area Council (#092)
image	File:Atlanta Area Council office.jpg
type	council
owner	Scouting America
headquarters	1800 Circle 75 Parkway, SE
country	United States
f-date
members	30,000 youth est.
chiefscouttitle	President
chiefscout	Joseph Blanco
chiefscouttitle2	Council Commissioner
chiefscout2	Louis Todd
chiefscouttitle3	Scout Executive
chiefscout3	Tracy Techau
website

Atlanta, GA 30339 |f-date= The Atlanta Area Council is a local council of Scouting America. 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, Scouting 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

Bert Adams Scout Camp
Robert W. Woodruff Scout Camp
Allatoona Aquatics Base

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" 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).

References

"Districts".
https://aacegwa.org/lodge-lodge-history/ {{Bare URL inline. (August 2025)

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