Editing Scouting in Virginia (section)

===Tidewater Council===
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[[Tidewater Council]] serves southeastern [[Virginia]] and north-eastern [[North Carolina]].  This region is often referred to as [[South Hampton Roads]] or the ''Tidewater'' or ''Tidewater Virginia'' area; hence the name of the council. One of the first councils in the country, Tidewater Council was established in 1911, just one year after [[William D. Boyce|William Boyce]] of [[Chicago]] founded Scouting in the United States, and only three years after Sir [[Robert Baden-Powell]] founded the movement in England.  In 1914 the local council was issued a second-class charter, as it did not have a professional Scout executive.{{citation needed|date=September 2015}}

Its [[Order of the Arrow]] counterpart is the [[Blue Heron Lodge]], which was founded in 1946 when a team from Octoraro Lodge in [[Scouting in Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]] inducted the first members of Blue Heron Lodge.