If you want to visit the Boy Scout “birthplace” where would one go? I know the Girl Scout birthplace is Juliette Lowe’s house in Savannah, GA. Is there a museum or something for Boy Scouts? I’d like to visit it.
The history of Scouting in the U.S. dates to 1909, with the incorporation of the Boy Scouts of America. It's hard to pinpoint a birthplace because Scouting, through Baden Powell's book, Scouting for Boys, was a worldwide movement. We had Scout Troops in the U.S. before we had the BSA, both imported from Scotland and homegrown.
The BSA Museum was previously in Kentucky but is now in Irving, Texas.
The Boy Scouts were founded in 1907 by Lord Robert Baden-Powell when he held the first Scouting encampment for boys on Brownsea Island in England. It has since spread worldwide.
I do not know if there is an actual “birthplace” of the Boy Scout movement like Juliette Lowe’s house for the Girl Scouts in Georgia. BTW, I have a picture of my wife’s Girl Scout troop in front of that house from a trip they took from South Carolina when my wife was a Girl Scout in the early 60’s.
The BSA national headquarters is in Irving, TX, suburb of Dallas. There is a very good BSA museum at the HQ building.
Not sure there is such a place in the US. One suggestion is BSA HQ in Irvington TX. Haven’t been there, but believe they have something in the way of a museum there. Yep:
Found this on the birth of the BSA - good summary article:
http://www.classb.com/blog/2011/02/09/william-boyce-a-good-turn-and-the-birth-of-the-bsa/