The Los Padres Council was founded in 1917 as the Santa Barbara Council. The SBC changed its name in 1929 to the Mission Council and stayed that way until 1994.
| Los Padres Council (#053) | |||
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| Owner | Boy Scouts of America | ||
| Headquarters | Santa Barbara, California | ||
| Country | United States | ||
| Founded | 1917 | ||
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| Website www | |||
History
editIn 1994, the Santa Lucia Area Council merged with the Mission Council to form the Los Padres Council. The Santa Lucia Area Council (#056) was founded in 1933, as the San Luis Obispo County Council. The Central Coast Counties council (#025), founded in 1922 merged into Santa Barbara in 1924.[1]
Organization
edit- Pacific Coast District
- Cuesta District
Camps
edit- Rancho Alegre[2]
- Camp Rancho Alegre was severely damaged by the Whittier Fire in 2017 and as of 2020 is being rebuilt.[3]
Order of the Arrow
edit- Chumash Lodge #90[4]
See also
editWikimedia Commons has media related to Scouting in California.
References
edit- ↑ Hook, James; Franck, Dave; Austin, Steve (1982). An Aid to Collecting Selected Council Shoulder Patches with Valuation.
- ↑ "Rancho Alegre". Archived from the original on June 3, 2012.
- ↑ "Rancho Alegre Reconstruction".
- ↑ "WWW Chumash Lodge 90".