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Proclamation from Lt. Governor |
 
The Housatonic Council serves the five communities in the Lower Naugatuck Valley of Connecticut. They are Ansonia, Derby, Oxford, Seymour, and Shelton. The Housatonic Council, although organized in 1920, held its first annual meeting Jan. 25, 1923 and voted to organize as a first class council to have jurisdiction over Scouting in Ansonia, Shelton and Seymour in addition to Derby. The territory was extended to include Oxford at a later date. The same 1923 meeting voted to adopt the name Housatonic Council, Boy Scouts of America, and to employee a Scout Executive. The first executive board met March 22, 1923. It was nearly 20 years later, in September 1940, that steps were taken to incorporate the council. Finally, on March 3, 1941, the incorporators-James F. Halpin, Frank H. Gates, Earl B. Boies, L. L. DeSaulniers and Edward L. Miller-met with Attorney Francis Baut and the Scout Executive to sign Articles of Association. The papers were approved the following day in Hartford by the Secretary of the State. |