| Atlanta Area Council (#092) | |
| Type: | council |
| Owner: | Boy Scouts of America |
| Headquarters: | 1800 Circle 75 Parkway, SEAtlanta, GA 30339 |
| Country: | United States |
| Members: | 30,000 youth est. |
| Chiefscouttitle: | President |
| Chiefscout: | Jon Bridges |
| Chiefscouttitle2: | Council Commissioner |
| Chiefscout2: | Louis Todd |
| Chiefscouttitle3: | Scout Executive |
| Chiefscout3: | Tracy Techau |
The Atlanta Area Council is a local council of the Boy Scouts of America. It serves 13 northern Georgia counties: Carroll, Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Douglas, Fulton, Gwinnett, Haralson, Newton, Paulding, Pickens, and Rockdale.[1]
The council is divided into districts:
The council was known as the Atlanta Council from 1915 to 1939, and as the Polaris Council in the 1950s.
Egwa Tawa Dee Lodge is the Order of the Arrow lodge that serves the Atlanta Area Council. It was chartered in 1938 as Broad-Winged-Hawk #129. Egwa Tawa Dee is translated from "equa tawadi", the Cherokee language for the lodge's totem, the broad-winged hawk whose literal translation is "big hawk"; for ease of pronunciation, it was spelled out as "Egwa Tawa Dee."
The lodge was chartered in 1938 as Broad-Winged-Hawk No. 129 is divided into 16 chapters, as well as collegiate OA chapters at the Georgia Institute of Technology and at Southern Polytechnic State University. Current chapters include Achewon Woapalanne, Echota, Etowah, Kennesaw, Nagatamen, Lowanne Nimat, Osten Nokose, Silepl Ilaonëtu, Tella Qualla Boundary, Thennethlofkee, Wesadicha and Wvhvlv en Hvresse. Past chapters include Awi-uska, Sagahattee, and South Fulton.[2]