Frostburg Council
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| Owner | Boy Scouts of America | ||
| Headquarters | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | ||
| Country | United States | ||
| Founded | July 1, 2011 | ||
| President | H. Scott Cunningham | ||
| Council Commissioner | Donald G. Scandrol | ||
| Scout Executive | Sharon Moulds | ||
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Website http://www.lhc-bsa.org |
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Website http://www.heritagereservation.org |
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| Allohak Menewi Lodge | |||
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Website http://www.lodge57.org |
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Laurel Highlands Council serves youth in the Pittsburgh and surrounding areas, Allegany and Garrett Counties in Maryland and Mineral, Hampshire, Hardy, and Grant Counties in West Virginia.
In 1914, four years after the Scouting Movement was launched in the United States, the Allegheny County Council was chartered by the Boy Scouts of America. The Philadelphia Council was also chartered in 1914. In 1921 the council was split into seven separate council units: the Allegheny Council, Allegheny Valley Council, Chartiers Council (McKees Rocks), East Boroughs Council (Wilkinsburg; merged with Mon-Yough Council in 1973), Guyasuta Council (Aspinwall), Ohio Valley Council, Pittsburgh Council, and South Hills Council (merged with Pittsburgh Council, 1928, to become Allegheny County Council, West).
In 1967, the former Nemacolin Trails Council in Washington, Pennsylvania, merged with the Allegheny Council in Pittsburgh to become the Allegheny Trails Council. This council merged again in 1993 with East Valley Area Council Forest Hills to become the former Greater Pittsburgh Council.
Greater Pittsburgh Council and Penn's Woods Council merged on July 1, 2011 to form Laurel Highlands Council. Potomac Council was absorbed into Laurel Highlands Council in early 2014.
Following the merge of area councils the HQ for the New Council was the flag plaza near the old Mellon Arena and the new Consol Energy center.
In 1970, Blair-Bedford Area Council, William Penn Council, and Admiral Robert E. Peary Council, merged into Penn's Woods Council. Its headquarters was in Ebensburg.
Camp Anawanna is nestled in the foothills of rural Washington County, between Amity and Prosperity. It is 1 hour and 20 minutes south of Pittsburgh. Anawanna offers some weekend cabins and tent camping.
Camp Guyasuta, located in Allegheny County (Pa.) between Aspinwall and Sharpsburg near the banks of the Allegheny River, was established in 1918. Mary Darlington, great-granddaughter of James O'Hara, lived in a house (named "Guyasuta") on the land at the time but was forced to vacate the property during World War II when the Federal government took over the railroad lines as part of the war effort. While the government acquired the land it needed, Mary subsequently gave the Boy Scouts over 100 additional acres suitable for a camp. When she died in 1925, Mary's will officially bequeathed the land to the Scouting organization.
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