Editing Scouting in California (section)

==Early history (1910–1950)==
In the early days of ″Scouting″ there were several different ″Scouting″ type organizations. Some of the organizations known to have members in California were:
* [[American Boy Scouts|American Boy Scout]]<ref name="oakhist">{{Cite web |title=Oakland Area Council - History |url=http://www.sfbac-history.org/OAC-History.html |website=www.sfbac-history.org}}</ref> (also known as the United States Boy Scout organization)
* [[Boy Scouts of America]]<ref name="oakhist" /> (BSA)
* [[Girl Scouts of the USA]]
* California Boy Scouts<ref name="oakhist" />
* Peace Scouts of California<ref name="mark">{{Cite news |last=Ray |first=Mark |date=February 2010 |title=Team of Rivals |url=http://www.scoutingmagazine.org/issues/1001/a-events.html |work=Scouting}}</ref>{{Citation needed|reason=primary source needed|date=November 2010}}

The Boy Scouts of United States (a wing of the National Highway Protective Association),<ref name="Richardson">{{Cite book |last=Richardson |first=Norman Egbert |url=https://archive.org/details/boyscoutmovemen01loomgoog |title=The boy scout movement applied by the church |last2=Loomis, Ormond E. |publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons |year=1915 |location=New York |pages=[https://archive.org/details/boyscoutmovemen01loomgoog/page/n33 9]–10}}</ref> [[Young Men's Christian Association]] and the [[Salvation Army]] may have also had ″Scouting″ type programs in California.<ref name="mark" />

In 1914, parents and Chinese-American boys organized their own Boy Scout troop in San Francisco, the first troop for Chinese Americans and possibly the first troop in San Francisco. It was recognized as Troop 3 once San Francisco became a council. The troop continues today.<ref>-
{{Cite book |last=Tong |first=Benson |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uK6xhcu-4hAC |title=Asian American children: a historical handbook and guide |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-313-33042-1 |pages=13, 193}}</ref>

Girl Scouting officially started in California by 1917 when [[Lou Henry Hoover]] help form a troop in [[Palo Alto]]. In 1922 the first service unit in the western United States, Service Unit 1, was set up in Palo Alto by Lou Henry Hoover, then president of the Girl Scouts of the US, and is now part of the Girl Scouts of Northern California council.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Dremann |first=Sue |date=March 9, 2012 |title=Palo Alto Girl Scouts were first in the West |url=http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=24607 |access-date=2012-03-11 |work=Palo Alto Online |publisher=Palo Alto Weekly |pages=6}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Girl Scouts of Palo Alto |url=http://girlscoutsofpaloalto.org/ |access-date=2012-03-11}}</ref>