Curtis S. Read Scout Reservation
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| Owner | Boy Scouts of America | ||
| Headquarters | Hawthorne, NY | ||
| Country | United States | ||
| Founded | 1973 | ||
| President | John G. Callahan | ||
| Council Commissioner | Chris Kristensen | ||
| Scout Executive | Pat Coviello | ||
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| Founded | 1973 | ||
| Lodge Chief | Chris Krajca | ||
| Lodge Adviser | Robert Behan | ||
| Staff Adviser | John Babbage | ||
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Westchester-Putnam Council is a local council of the Boy Scouts of America, serving Boy Scouts in southeastern New York State.
Before 1920, both Westchester and Putnam counties were served by many individual councils that were based in the cities of the area. Among them were Bronxville(founded 1919), Mamaroneck(1917), Mount Vernon, New Rochelle, Peekskill(1918), Pelham(1910), Rye(5/29/1913), White Plains(1918) and Yonkers Councils. On July 18, 1919 James West oversaw the merger of many of these councils into a Westchester County Council with jurisdiction over all troops not already in a Class 1 council. Its headquarters was in White Plains. The only Class 1 councils in Westchester at the time appear to have been Mount Vernon and Yonkers.
Westchester County Council split in 1922 along east/west lines into the Siwanoy Council, serving troops along Westchester's Long Island Sound and the Hendrick Hudson Council, serving troops along the Hudson River from Hastings to Peekskill. Mount Vernon Council changed its name to the Bronx Valley Council and absorbed several inland towns including Bronxville. White Plains and the northern and eastern half of Westchester was well as the eastern portion of Putnam County was included in the James Fenimore Cooper Council. In 1958, the Bronx Valley Council merged with the Siwanoy Council, forming the Siwanoy-Bronx Valley Council. The name was later changed to Hutchinson River Council in 1962.
In northern Westchester, the Hendrick Hudson Council, which served the villages along the Hudson River Hastings north to Peekskill, and the James Fennimore Cooper Council, which served the White Plains-Bedford-Brewster area, merged to form the Washington Irving Council in 1950. The Yonkers Council was later absorbed in 1955. In 1973, the Washington Irving Council merged with Hutchinson River Council to form the present-day Westchester-Putnam Council, originally headquartered in White Plains. In 1993, the council headquarters were relocated to the current location in Hawthorne, NY.
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