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Spirit of Adventure Council

regional Boy Scouts council in Massachusetts, U.S

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ15077124 ↗
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The Spirit of Adventure Council is a regional council of Scouting America. It serves the greater Boston, Massachusetts, area.

History

The Yankee Clipper Council and Boston Minuteman Council merged on July 1, 2015. As part of this merger, New Hampshire towns of the former Yankee Clipper Council were transferred to the Daniel Webster Council, headquartered in Manchester.

Boston Minuteman Council

In 1993, the Boston Minuteman Council #227 was formed from the merger of Minuteman Council #240 (Stoneham, 1959–1993) and the Greater Boston Council #227 (Boston, 1980–1993), formerly Boston Council #227 (1921-1980 when only the name changed).

In 1966, the Quincy Council (Quincy, Massachusetts) (1918–1966) merged with the Boston Council.

In 1959, the Minuteman Council (Stoneham, 1959–1993) was formed from a merger of Sachem Council #223 (Lexington, 1926–1959), Fellsland Council #242 (Winchester, 1932–1959), and Quannopowitt Council #240 (Malden, 1993-1959).

The Cambridge Council #229 (Cambridge, 1919–2001) and their Kahagon Order of the Arrow Lodge #131 were merged into the Boston Minuteman Council in 2001.

Yankee Clipper Council

Yankee Clipper Council {{#236}} was formed from a merger of the North Essex Council, North Bay Council, and Lone Tree Council in 1993. The Greater Lowell Council merged with Yankee Clipper in 2000, choosing it over three adjacent councils.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Spirit of Adventure Council” as regional Boy Scouts council in Massachusetts, U.S. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015, 1993, 1959, 1980—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Spirit, Adventure and Council can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as regional Boy Scouts council in Massachusetts, U.S. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “Spirit of Adventure Council” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.