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2 unusual facts about Order of the Arrow


Esselen people

The Esalen Institute in Big Sur is named after this tribe as is Boy Scouts of America Monterey Bay Area Council Order of the Arrow Esselen Lodge #531.

Octoraro Creek

The final horseshoe-like loop, where the creek first crosses the border, gives the name to the Boy Scouts of America's Horseshoe Scout Reservation and the Chester County Council's Order of the Arrow Lodge.


Camp Onway

As the story goes, he died while packing his car to go to Lawrence, Kansas with the Order of the Arrow (OA).

Frontiersmen Camping Fellowship

The Frontiersmen Camping Fellowship is a program of the Royal Rangers, and serves as their service/honor organization, similar to the Boy Scouts of America's Order of the Arrow.

Scouting in Michigan

In 1933, the National Order of the Arrow Lodge Meeting was held at the Owasippe Scout Camps outside Whitehall, Michigan.


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