When was scouts founded?

Answer 1

That is a not an easy question to answer.

There were several scouting movements underway in the US such as the Woodcraft Indians and Sons of Daniel Boone as early as the late 1800's.

In 1907 Lord Baden Powell of Gilwell England took his first group of boys to Brownsea Island for what he termed an experiment in scouting. He wrote "Scouting for Boys" in 1908 and is commonly credited with starting the World Scouting Movement we know today. Different sources often list either 1907 or 1908 as the date.

William Boyce brought Powell's scouting ideas over to the US after encountering scouts in England and founded the BSA in 1910. The other scouting organizations already present in the US quickly folded into the new BSA.

The first Boy Scout troop in America was organized slightly before that in Pawhuska, Oklahoma (Osage County), in May 1909 by Reverend John F. Mitchell, a missionary priest from England sent to St. Thomas Episcopal Church by the Church of England. Rev. Mitchell, who had been associated in scout work with Lord Baden-Powell in England, organized the troop of Boy Scouts under English charter and equipped them with English uniforms, manuals, and badges.

Answer 2

1908