Girl Scout 100th Anniversary LbNA #61874
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | May 15, 2012 |
| Location: | Manross Library |
| City: | Bristol |
| County: | Hartford |
| State: | Connecticut |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | Gammy54  |
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| Found by: | Bell Lady |
| Last found: | Sep 6, 2013 |
| Status: | FFFFa |
| Last edited: | Nov 28, 2015 |
The Girls Scouts of the United States are celebrating our 100th anniversary in 2012.
To honor scouting and to share a little bit of the history of both Scouting and our favorite local library - Manross Memorial Library - our Troop has hidden a letterbox.
The Forestville Bristol Library branch began in 1904 in a building on East Main Street provided by Sessions Clock Company until 1947. The Forestville branch moved to Central and Garden Streets (its present location) in 1950. It was named Frederick N. Manross in memory o Arthur Manross' father and was presented to the city.
Girl Scouting in the United States began in 1912 when Juliette "Daisy" Gordon Low assembled 18 girls from Savannah, Georgia, on March 12, 1912, for a local Girl Scout meeting. She believed that all girls should be given the opportunity to develop physically, mentally, and spiritually. With the goal of bringing girls out of isolated home environments and into community service and the open air, Girl Scouts hiked, played basketball, went on camping trips, learned how to tell time by the stars, and studied first aid.
Within a few years, Daisy's dream for a girl-centered organization was realized. Today, Girl Scouts of the USA has a membership of over 3.2 million girls and adults, a significant growth from its modest beginnings nearly a century ago.
More of the history of Scouting is in an additional pad in our box.
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Directions to find the letterbox:
Find Manross Library (corner of Central and Garden Streets). Park on Garden Street and walk to the left of the driveway. Pass the library's main doors, go down 4 stairs. Continue to almost the end of the sidewalk; go down the 9 stairs to your left.
Continue on sidewalk along side of the building (past the newly installed elevator). At the end of the building turn 45 degrees, walk diagonally up the small hill about 40 paces. Stop at the chain link fence on a cement wall. Look to the right of the fence and wall for 2 rocks. You will find the letterbox under the rocks.
To honor scouting and to share a little bit of the history of both Scouting and our favorite local library - Manross Memorial Library - our Troop has hidden a letterbox.
The Forestville Bristol Library branch began in 1904 in a building on East Main Street provided by Sessions Clock Company until 1947. The Forestville branch moved to Central and Garden Streets (its present location) in 1950. It was named Frederick N. Manross in memory o Arthur Manross' father and was presented to the city.
Girl Scouting in the United States began in 1912 when Juliette "Daisy" Gordon Low assembled 18 girls from Savannah, Georgia, on March 12, 1912, for a local Girl Scout meeting. She believed that all girls should be given the opportunity to develop physically, mentally, and spiritually. With the goal of bringing girls out of isolated home environments and into community service and the open air, Girl Scouts hiked, played basketball, went on camping trips, learned how to tell time by the stars, and studied first aid.
Within a few years, Daisy's dream for a girl-centered organization was realized. Today, Girl Scouts of the USA has a membership of over 3.2 million girls and adults, a significant growth from its modest beginnings nearly a century ago.
More of the history of Scouting is in an additional pad in our box.
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Directions to find the letterbox:
Find Manross Library (corner of Central and Garden Streets). Park on Garden Street and walk to the left of the driveway. Pass the library's main doors, go down 4 stairs. Continue to almost the end of the sidewalk; go down the 9 stairs to your left.
Continue on sidewalk along side of the building (past the newly installed elevator). At the end of the building turn 45 degrees, walk diagonally up the small hill about 40 paces. Stop at the chain link fence on a cement wall. Look to the right of the fence and wall for 2 rocks. You will find the letterbox under the rocks.