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Contents • • • • • • History The Great Smoky Mountain Council was founded as the Knox County Council in 1915. The Cumberland Council was formed in in 1927 and a council of the same name was formed in from 1921-1923. The saw the consolidation of these councils into the Knoxville Area Council. Agatha Christie The Adventure Of The Christmas Pudding Pdf here. The name was changed in 1943 to its current incarnation. In 1915, the Knox County Council's first summer camp was held at Camp Helpful, near, in what is now the.

Four years later, camp was held at a facility in known as The Scout Ranch. In 1936, the Knoxville Council leased a patch of property on from the. This soon became the Council summer camp, named Camp Pellissippi. 1938 saw Camp Pellissippi’s first summer camp season; 75 scouts attended with 600 in attendance the following year. Pellissppi Lodge 230 of the is named for the camp.

In 1952 several scout leaders including William Perry “Buck” Toms purchased a plot of property on the shores of Watts Bar Lake using proceeds from a scout show. Three years later, the first summer camp was held at Buck Toms with 155 scouts and leaders in attendance. The first campers arrived by boat, due to the lack of any road to the camp grounds. Electricity was implemented at the camp in 1957.

In 1977, the dining hall at Camp Pellissippi was destroyed by fire. The summer camp was rendered defunct and although the council has retained the property as a campground for, it has not served as a summer camp since. This left Camp Buck Toms to serve as the sole summer camp of the Great Smoky Mountain Council. 1994 saw the renovation of Buck Toms with the addition of several buildings, including a dining hall that greatly increased the camp’s capacity. Great Smoky Mountain Council Scouting and Guiding Topics.