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Council line from 1916 — Fort Wayne Council to Anthony Wayne Area Council
Lineage: Scouting's Fort Wayne council line runs, in the Boy Scouts of America's own council records, Fort Wayne Council (1916–1924), Allen County Council (1924–1925), then the Anthony Wayne Area Council, council number 157, headquartered in Fort Wayne. The council's own executive offered a slightly different date in 2010 — "In 1917, we were chartered to provide the Boy Scout program to the youth of northeast Indiana" — and the one-year difference between the BSA's council list (1916) and the council's own telling (1917) is carried openly rather than resolved. The Rotary entry above records one of the council's earliest troops, sponsored at the County Children's Home.
Scale: The council serves eleven counties — Adams, Wells, Jay, Huntington, Allen, DeKalb, LaGrange, Noble, Steuben, Whitley and Kosciusko — from headquarters at 8315 West Jefferson Boulevard, with the Anthony Wayne Scout Reservation near Ashley, Indiana. In 2009 it reported over 8,000 youth served with 2,800 volunteers; its 2023 federal filings give revenue of about 2.9 million dollars.
Sources:
- Boy Scouts of America, defunct-councils listing — Fort Wayne Council 1916–1924; Allen County Council 1924–1925; Anthony Wayne Area Council 157.
- Waynedale News, 12 February 2010 — Scout Executive John C. Fenoglio's 1917 charter statement; 8,000 youth and 2,800 volunteers in 2009; the eleven counties.
- IRS Form 990 summary, Anthony Wayne Area Council — 2023 revenue 2,918,938 dollars; headquarters address.