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1910 – 1960 North Carolina Boy Scout Camp Insignia
North Carolina Boy Scout Camps – The First Fifty Years Larry Lane recorded a 15 minute PowerPoint presentation on the early history of Boy Scout camps in North Carolina (video link below!). Here is a summary of his findings. Please watch the video to see some great images he included. Types of Councils In the …Read More
1942 OA National Meeting to be in Chapel Hill, NC
Chapel Hill was the site for two large Scouting events in the 1930s. The “Carolina Jubilee” was held on the grounds of UNC in 1935 and 1938 (and again in 1941). Over 1400 Scouts from North and South Carolina attended the 1938 event including OA National Chief Joseph A. Brunton, Jr. Greensboro Council Scout Executive …Read More
Tali Taktaki Lodge 70: Big events filled 1938!
1938 was an eventful year for Tali Taktaki Lodge! In April Joseph H. Brinton, National Chief of the Order of the Arrow visited the lodge’s annual meeting at Camp Graystone. There were representatives from East Carolina Council and Winston-Salem in attendance. Executives in both councils were considering forming OA lodges and took this opportunity to …Read More
Tslagi vs. Tsalagi “What’s in a name!”
A new Order of the Arrow lodge was chartered by Cherokee Council of North Carolina in 1939. The new Arrowmen wanted to name their lodge “Cherokee”, but were disappointed to learn that a lodge in Birmingham, Alabama already was using that name. Some unknown individual suggested the Native American word for Cherokee using their language …Read More
The Battle of Guilford Courthouse Historic Trail
For over 30 years the Order of the Arrow lodge in Greensboro, NC has sponsored a historic trail. On March 15, 1781 American troops and militia under the leadership of General Nathanael Greene fought British forces led by General Cornwallis in the Battle of Guilford Courthouse. Two hundred years later on February 6, 1981 Tali …Read More
Keyauwee Lodge 70 S1 and S2
At the beginning of 1992 Keyauwee Lodge 70 was formed from the merger of Tali Taktaki Lodge 70 and Uwharrie Lodge 208. The first event that the members of the two lodges attended was the 1992 SE-7 Section Conclave held at Cherokee Scout Reservation on April 10 – 12. The new lodge did not receive …Read More
Tslagi Lodge 163 Arrowheads
Tslagi Lodge 163 was chartered in 1939 by Cherokee Council and issued its first patch in 1953. The design for this first patch was a kneeling Indian chief drawing a bow. According to Blue Book there are three distinct issues with this basic design. They are as follows: A1 – Indian has Green belt and …Read More
Life Member Patches Carry Across Three Lodges in NC
In the mid-1980s Uwharrie Lodge 208 started a Life Member program. While other lodges had these programs, Larry Warlick credits the NC Wildlife Commission’s offering of a lifetime hunting license as giving him the idea to suggest it for his lodge. Following approval of the Lodge Executive Committee, Brothers could pay a flat fee and …Read More
The Rarest OA Issue In All of North Carolina
Blue Book Issue: Tali Taktaki C1 I am not sure when the first of these was presented, definitely prior to the ’37 Jamborees. I do know lodge officers and the Degree Team were issued one each at the Friday night Court of Honor at the Guilford County Courthouse. The Degree Team Traveled around North Carolina, …Read More
Tali Taktaki Lodge 70 First Flap
In 1957 Tali Taktaki lodge chief Steve Glass designed the lodge’s first flap. The fully embroidered patch has a lakeside scene with a youthful blue heron standing on a gray stone. The lodge restricted the patch to two per member per year. This design continued unchanged from 1957 to 1976. During this twenty year period …Read More