This page was last updated on: August 26, 2009

Previous Girl Scout Council that became GSCNC

A Timeline

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1912March 12 - Savannah Georgia, first troop organized.

1913Girl Scouts, Inc. - National headquarter in the Massey Bldg in Washington, DC

1924Girl Scouts of the District of Columbia

National Capital Girl Scout Council

1935 Prince Georges Girl Scout Council chartered from DC troops

1938Arlington Girl Scout Council chartered from DC troops

1938Alexandria Girl Scout Council chartered from DC troops

1946Fairfax County Girl Scout Council chartered from Arlington troops &

Quantico Marine base troops

1957Southern Maryland GIrl Scoutt Council charterd from PG and adding

troops in St. Mary's  and Calvert counties

1958Northern Virginia Girl Scout Counci  was renamed as Fairfax County

Council of Girl Scouts expanded to include the City of Falls Church, VA,

and the Quantico Marine Corps base schools.

1963Girls Scout Council of the Nation's Capital chartered as merger of  above

5 councils with the additional Virgnia counties of Fauquier, Loudoun and

Prince William  and  Maryland counties of Calvert and Charles.

2006Frederick County MD troops formerly Penn-Laurel GSC (PA) merge with

GSCNC

2009Shawnee Girl Scout Council (Allegany and Washington Counties in Maryland;

Clarke, Frederick, Page, Shenandoah and Warren Counties in Virginia; and

Berkeley, Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Mineral and Morgan Counties

in West Virginia join GSCNC to form one of the largest Girl Scout Council

in the United States