| Atlanta Area Council (#092) | |||
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| Owner | Scouting America | ||
| Headquarters | 1800 Circle 75 Parkway, SEAtlanta, GA 30339 | ||
| Country | United States | ||
| Founded | 1916; 109 years ago (1916) | ||
| Membership | 30,000 youth est. | ||
| President | Joseph Blanco | ||
| Council Commissioner | Louis Todd | ||
| Scout Executive | Tracy Techau | ||
| Website www | |||
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TheAtlanta Area Council is a local council ofScouting America. It serves 13 northern Georgia counties: Carroll, Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Douglas, Fulton, Gwinnett, Haralson, Newton, Paulding, Pickens, and Rockdale.[1]
The council is divided into districts:
The council was known as the Atlanta Council from 1915 to 1939, and as the Polaris Council in the 1950s.
Egwa Tawa Dee Lodge is theOrder of the Arrowlodge that serves the Atlanta Area Council. It was chartered in 1938 as Broad-Winged-Hawk #129. Egwa Tawa Dee is translated from "equa tawadi", theCherokee language for the lodge's totem, the broad-winged hawk whose literal translation is "big hawk"; for ease of pronunciation, it was spelled out as "Egwa Tawa Dee" to aid in pronunciation.
The lodge is divided into 12 chapters. Current chapters include Achewon Woapalanne, Echota, Etowah, Kennesaw, Nagatamen, Lowanne Nimat, Osten Nokose, Silepl Ilaonëtu, Tella Qualla Boundary, Thennethlofkee, Wesadicha and Wvhvlv en Hvresse. Past chapters include Awi-uska, Sagahattee, and South Fulton and collegiate OA chapters at the Georgia Institute of Technology and at Southern Polytechnic State University (now the Marietta Campus of Kennesaw State University).[2]
