Chester County Council
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| Owner | Boy Scouts of America | ||
| Location | West Chester | ||
| Country | United States | ||
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| Horseshoe Scout Reservation | |||
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| Location | Rising Sun, Maryland | ||
| Coordinates | 39°43′N 76°07′W / 39.71°N 76.11°W | ||
| Founded | 1928 | ||
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| Camp John H. Ware III | |||
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| Location | Peach Bottom, Pennsylvania | ||
| Coordinates | 39°43′38″N 76°7′18″W / 39.72722°N 76.12167°W | ||
| Founder | John H. Ware, III | ||
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The Chester County Council is a Boy Scouts of America service council that serves members of the Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, and Venturing programs in Chester County, Pennsylvania and Northeastern Cecil County, Maryland. It is one of the oldest councils in the nation, and is one of two single-county councils left in Pennsylvania, the other being Chief Cornplanter Council in Warren, PA.
The council is administratively divided into four districts:
The Chester County Council was formed by a charter by the National BSA Council in 1919, and was charged with overseeing the Scouts in Chester County under the leadership of Dr. Arthur A. Schuck, who later became the third Chief Scout Executive in the BSA and who had previously been Deputy Chief Scout Executive under Dr. James West. In the early years, the council, forming in the wake of the armistice ending World War I, was able to consolidate the independent troops, despite most of the adults that were qualified were off in Europe.
In the 1920s, the council, under the leadership of Charles Heistand, underwent a metamorphosis that resulted in the acquisition of a new Scout camp, and the formation of its own Order of the Arrow lodge. Prior to the acquisition of the Reynolds Farm property on the Mason–Dixon line near Rising Sun, Maryland and Oxford, Pennsylvania, Scouts attending summer camp were loaded up onto military trucks, and then shipped out to Camp Rothrock, the council's old summer camp property located near Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The council longed for a camp closer to home, and after being rejected by the former Philadelphia Area Council as being "too far", the council acquired the Reynolds Farm, then a moonshiner haven, and the new camp, the Horseshoe Scout Reservation, opened its doors in 1928.
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