Girl Scout Cookies
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member silverquill
N 39° 57.292 W 075° 09.820
18S E 486020 N 4422760
Marker Text: On November 11, 1932, Girl Scouts baked & sold cookies for the first time in the windows of the Philadelphia Gas & Electric Co. here. This endeavor soon became a Philadelphia tradition. In 1936 the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. adopted the annual cookie sale as a national program.
Waymark Code: WMB42
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 04/23/2006
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member unimoggers
Views: 102



Perhaps a dubious claim on the part of Philadelphia, unless it refers ONLY to the first Girl Scout cookie in this city. Here is the official version taken from the Girl Scout web site: Girl Scout Cookie History

"The sale of cookies as a way to finance troop activities began as early as 1917, five years after Juliette Gordon Low started Girl Scouting in the United States. The earliest mention of a cookie sale found to date was that of the Mistletoe Troop in Muskogee, Oklahoma, which baked cookies and sold them in its high school cafeteria as a service project in December 1917"
Marker Name: Girl Scout Cookies

County: Philadelphia

Date Dedicated: 01/16/2001

Marker Type: City

Location: 1401 Arch Street Philadelphia, PA

Category: Women, Business & Industry

Website: [Web Link]

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