Editing Scouting in Virginia (section)

===History===
[[William D. Boyce]] incorporated the Boy Scouts of America at 11:03{{nbsp}}am on February 8, 1910, in [[Washington, D.C.]], on the advice of railroad executive and later first national president of the organization Colin H. Livingstone, with assistance from lawyers at the firm Ralston, Siddons and Richardson.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Wendell |first=Bryan |date=February 8, 2017 |title=We know the date (Feb. 8, 1910), but at what time was the BSA founded? |publisher=Boy Scouts of America |url=http://blog.scoutingmagazine.org/2017/02/08/we-know-the-date-feb-8-1910-but-what-time-was-the-bsa-founded/ |access-date=25 February 2017}}</ref> Six months later{{refn|August 1910}} in [[Norfolk, Virginia|Norfolk]], Charles Merrill Watson, pastor of First Christian Church, organized Troop&nbsp;1, the first Boy Scout troop in Virginia.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Newby-Alexander |first1=Cassandra |title=Portsmouth Virginia |last2=Breckenridge-Haywood |first2=Mae |date=2003 |publisher=Arcadia |pages=128}}</ref>{{rp|116}}

In the next year the National Capital Area Council was formed.<ref name="ncac1911">{{Cite news |last1=Agnew |first1=Jeff |last2=Durbin |first2=Don |last3=Eyck |first3=Greg |date=November 1, 2011 |title=Local Scout Council, Capital Area Food Bank, WUSA-TV, Safeway and The Washington Examiner team up to nourish area's hungry |url=https://www.capitalareafoodbank.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Scouting-For-Food-Media-Advisory.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170226131434/https://www.capitalareafoodbank.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Scouting-For-Food-Media-Advisory.pdf |archive-date=2017-02-26 |url-status=live |access-date=26 February 2017}}</ref> The oldest unit in the council is Troop 52, out of All Saints [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopal Church]] in [[Chevy Chase, MD|Chevy Chase]].<ref name="oldest scout troop" /> This unit dates all the way back to 1913.<ref name="oldest scout troop" /> When the [[Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia]] decided that the security of suffrage marchers in 1916 was not their problem, Troop 52 Scouts marched alongside the women.<ref name="oldest scout troop">{{Cite news |last=Hendrix |first=Steve |date=June 23, 2012 |title=Washington's oldest scout troop also its most well-connected |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/washingtons-oldest-scout-troop-also-its-most-well-connected/2012/06/23/gJQAGNQOyV_story.html |access-date=25 February 2017}}</ref>

From [[1981 National Scout Jamboree]], through the 2010 National Scout Jamboree, all Jamborees were held at [[Fort A.P. Hill]], Virginia.<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Virginia Record Magazine, Volume 101 |date=1979 |publisher=Virginia Publishers Wing}}</ref>{{rp|30}}