Editing Scouting in Virginia (section)

===History===
In 1939, the [[Alexandria, Virginia|Alexandria]] Council and the [[Arlington County, Virginia|Arlington]] Council formed.<ref name="Girl Scout Council of the Nation" />{{rp|48}} This version of the Arlington Council included Falls Church, Fairfax City, and Fairfax County. Later the Fairfax County Council of Girl Scouts formed, but would not include all the Fairfax County troops until 1946.<ref name="Girl Scout Council of the Nation" />{{rp|48}} In 1946 the Fairfax County Council of Girl Scouts had 26 troops with 476 girls.<ref name="Girl Scout Council of the Nation" />{{rp|52}} By 1958 there were 485 troops with 7,800 girls.<ref name="Girl Scout Council of the Nation" />{{rp|52}} Before buying land in 1942 to build Camp Potomac Woods, the Arlington Council would send their Scouts to National Park Service Camp Chopowamsic in Triangle Virginia.<ref name="Girl Scout Council of the Nation" />{{rp|50}}

In 1958, The District of Columbia Council formally changed names to National Capital Council, putting an end to the informal name of Girl Scouts of the District of Columbia and Montgomery County.<ref name="Girl Scout Council of the Nation">{{Cite book |last=Robertson |first=Ann E. |title=Girl Scout Council of the Nation's Capital |date=Dec 2, 2013 |publisher=Arcadia |pages=127}}</ref>{{rp|48}} Also in 1958 the Fairfax County Council of Girl Scouts spread by including Falls Church and Quantico and so later took the name Northern Virginia Girl Scout Council.<ref name="Girl Scout Council of the Nation" />{{rp|48}} Then in the June 1962 issue of the Trefoil magazine the National Capital Council held a mail in vote to rename the council with the choices of: Potomac River Council, Nation's Capital Council, Greater Washington Council, and a space to write in your own suggestion.<ref name="Girl Scout Council of the Nation" />{{rp|54}} Nation's Capital Council won that contest.<ref name="Girl Scout Council of the Nation" />{{rp|54}}

That kind of consolidation continued in 1963 when the new Girl Scout Council of the Nation's Capital was formed from the National Capital, Southern Maryland, Alexandria, Arlington, and Northern Virginia councils, as well as including a single troop from Prince William, another in Fauquier, and one in Loudoun.<ref name="Girl Scout Council of the Nation" />{{rp|48}} A new Shawnee Council also formed in 1963 which consolidated the Blue Ridge Council of Virginia, the Eastern Panhandle Council of West Virginia, the Washington County Council of Maryland, and the previous Shawnee Council that included the Maryland county of Alleghany, the Maryland county of Garrett, and the Pennsylvania county of Bedford.<ref name="Girl Scout Council of the Nation" />{{rp|48}} In 1972 this much larger Shawnee Council moved their headquarters to Martinsburg, West Virginia.<ref name="Girl Scout Council of the Nation" />{{rp|48}}