Talk:Scouting in Tennessee

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Would Wikipedians entertain the idea of having the Councils-by-state sections recategorized to "Scouting in Arizona", "Scouting in Washington", and so on, rather than a list of every council and district? The reason I would like this considered is

1) no other country's Scouting articles are divided into such minute details (except for The Scout Association of Hong Kong, and really, is that much minutiae important or interesting to the reader?)

2) many councils that a reader may choose to look up, like the Fitchburg Area Council of Massachusetts or the Vigilante Area Council of Montana, went extinct 30+ years ago, yet may be of interest in a more state-based article

3) many states like Alaska share a communal Scout history, only fairly recently being broken into smaller councils, others like North Dakota had several merged into one, and some Scouting histories are better told encompassing an entire state. The fact that Scouts in California prior to the charter of the BSA were the youth arm of the California Highway Patrol, or the fact that Connecticut, while having only eight counties, has had 22 councils over the course of its history, would be well-included in a statewide article

Chris 01:03, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Historical council information to be folded in

  • Tennessee Clarksville 1917 1919
  • Tennessee Lafollette 1921 1923
  • Tennessee 556 Chattanooga 1918 1925 changed name to Chattanooga Area 556 1925
  • Tennessee 556 Chattanooga Area 1925 1944 changed name to Cherokee Area 556 1944
  • Tennessee 556 Cherokee Area 1944
  • Tennessee 768 Cumberland 1927 1929 merged into Knoxville Area 557 1929
  • Tennessee 557 Knox County 1915 1930 merged into Knoxville Area 557 1930
  • Tennessee 557 Knoxville Area 1930 1943 changed name to Great Smoky Mountain 557 1943
  • Tennessee 557 Great Smoky Mountain 1943
  • Tennessee 558 Memphis 1915 1925 changed name to Chickasaw 558 1925
  • Mississippi 692 Sunflower River 1925 1929 merged into Delta Area 300 1929
  • Mississippi 300 Delta Area 1924 1993 January 1 merged into Chickasaw 558 1993 January 1
  • Tennessee 558 Chickasaw 1925
  • Tennessee 559 Johnson City 1919 1923 changed name to Washington County 559 1923
  • Tennessee 559 Washington County 1923 1925 changed name to Appalachian 559 1925
  • Tennessee 559 Appalachian 1925 merged into West Tennessee Area 559 1925
  • Texas 559 Quanah Parker 1928 1931 1/2 merged into West Tennessee 559 1931
  • Tennessee 687 West Tennessee 1924 1930 Direct Service/merged into??
  • Tennessee 559 West Tennessee Area 1939?
  • Tennessee 560 Nashville 1920 1929 changed name to Nashville Area 560 1929
  • Tennessee 15 Davy Crockett 1927 1930 merged into Nashville Area 560 1930
  • Tennessee 555 Middle Tennessee 1928 1930 merged into Nashville Area 560 1930
  • Tennessee 560 Nashville Area 1929 1949 changed name to Middle Tennessee 560 1949
  • Tennessee 560 Middle Tennessee 1949 http://www.mtcbsa.org/
  • Tennessee 559 Cherokee Area 1925 1929 merged into Chief Benge-Cherokee 713 1929
  • Virginia 713 Chief Benge 1925 1929 merged into Chief Benge-Cherokee 713 1929
  • Virginia 713 Chief Benge-Cherokee 1929 1931 changed name to Sequoyah 713 1931
  • Tennessee 713 Sequoyah 1931
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